Tina Feingold creates complex paintings that engage the realms of both abstraction and figuration. These lush works have ties to observed reality--the landscape, the human figure, fruit in a bowl--yet at the same time are informed by Feingold's pressing interest in the sheer physical act of painting with oil on canvas. Feingold's working method of setting down layer after layer of paint over an extended period of time results in amazingly luminous colors from an otherworldly palette, built-up edges that reveal the painting's history like a geological sample, and images that provoke emotion and slow down time for the viewer. The process of painting and repainting her canvases contributes to an internal dialogue in the work between two and three dimensionality, as well as between abstraction and representation. Feingold's work has been on view in exhibitions including "From the Permanent Collection" at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis in Waltham, MA; "The Ninth Triennial" at the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton, MA; and "Journey to Abstraction" at the Chen Art Center in New Britain, CT.