Rachel Feinstein

Vogue reported on her 40th birthday party in their new town house in Gramercy Park; its theme was "Miss Havisham" and guests were bid to "Dress Edwardian."

Feinstein's mediums include oil paint on glass and sculptures made of plaster and carved wood.

Her work has been described as combining "Rococo and Baroque flourishes with fairy tale and Disneyesque themes" and as creating a "baroque kitsch fantasy-land".

One reviewer wrote her work has "exposed (but also relied on) the ways in which flourish has been historically coded as feminine."

Rachel Feinstein (born May 25, 1971) is an American artist who specializes in sculpture.

She is best known for baroque, fantasy-inspired sculptures like "The Snow Queen", which was drawn from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

There have been over two dozen group and solo showings of her work in the United States, Europe and Asia.

She is married to painter John Currin.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1993, studying religion, philosophy and studio art.

In 1993 she also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Feinstein applied for a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, but believes she was rejected because she wore a transparent plastic miniskirt and a T-shirt reading "I'm a Satisfier" to the interview.

In New York Feinstein studied with artist Kiki Smith.

She has said she was particularly inspired by the sculptors Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pino Pascali, Elie Nadelman, Tilman Riemenschneider and Antonio Canova.

In 1994 her works were shown for the first time in the Sonnabend Gallery Artist Invitational group showing.

In that year she also showed at the Exit Art "Let the Artist Live" exhibit where she built a Sleeping Beauty's gingerbread house in which she actually slept.

In 1999 while working as a receptionist at the Marianne Boesky gallery, Boesky saw some of her sculpture sketches and relieved her of that position so that she could show her works.

This was Feinstein's first solo show.

The gallery has had three showings of her work.

In 2000 Feinstein exhibited works in "Pastoral Pop" at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris and 2000 at "The Americans" exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London.

Her 2001 debut solo show was inspired by her trip to palaces in Munich and Vienna.

In 2002 Feinstein and Currin published a 24-page book of their works at the Hydra Workshop in Hydra, Greece which they titled The Honeymooners, John Currin and Rachel Feinstein.

It includes an interview conducted by Sadie Coles.

Feinstein's flair for fashion inspired a 2004 collection by Marc Jacobs.

Juergen Teller photographed her for the advertising campaign.

In 2004 she displayed her plywood sculpture "The Crucifixion" at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery.

The life-sized depiction consisted of four figures: Jesus on the cross, Mary at his feet, John the Baptist and Saint John.

A reviewer remarked that rather than making a joke of the scene, as several contemporary artists had done, she had produced a work that was "startling" as well as "evocative and fresh."

In 2006, Feinstein displayed her work at Le Consortium in Dijon, France.

In 2007 she opened her eighth solo at the Corvi-Mora gallery in London, England.

In 2008 Feinstein published a signed, limited edition full-color catalog of her works over the previous ten years.

The introduction was written by author James Frey and the book includes an interview conducted by filmmaker Sofia Coppola.

The Currin's apartment loft, described as "most stylish apartment south of Houston Street", was featured in the December 2010 issue of World of Interiors after S. I. Newhouse, the chairman of Condé Nast, dined at the apartment.

Tom Ford included her in his show of his new women's fashion in 2010.

In 2011 the New York Times described them as "the ruling power couple in today's art world."

Feinstein, the daughter of a dermatologist and a nurse, was raised in Miami, Florida.

Her father is Jewish and her mother Catholic.

She became interested in art in elementary school and took private lessons.

She also studied with her artist grandmother.

In 2019 Feinstein opened her first solo museum survey in the United States, "Maiden, Mother, Crone," at the Jewish Museum in New York.

The exhibition opened to the public on November 1, 2019, and was organized by Kelly Taxter, The Jewish Museum's Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art.