Joy Feasley

Joy Feasley lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, and Stockton Springs, ME, and frequently collaborates with her partner Paul Swenbeck. The duo were Arts/Industry Foundry residents in 2017. This was followed by their first collaborative solo museum exhibition, Out, Out, Phosphene Candle, in 2018 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. They returned to the Kohler Co. factory in 2019 to work in the Pottery and Foundry on their artist-designed washroom Listen, the Snow is Falling, for the Art Preserve. Components of Out, Out, Phosphene Candle will be a part of Feasley and Swenbeck’s 2021 exhibition Will-o’-the-wisp at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (ME).

Feasley considers herself a landscape painter, though her landscapes forgo trees, sunsets, and waves, and instead seek to describe a mood. Her work tends to be small scale and intimate, often with depictions of supernatural scenes painted in rich, saturated colors that are a hybrid of abstract and figurative art. In addition to painting, she works in craft, sculpture, and installation. Awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2011, Feasley is a two-time recipient of the Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity grant and participated in a month-long residency at the 18th Street Studios. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, Cooper Union, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been shown widely, including solo exhibitions at Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Vox Populi. She is represented by Adams and Ollman Gallery.