ELEN FEINBERG BEACON
BEACON
Elen Feinberg
OCTOBER 17, 2025 - NOVEMBER 23, 2025
New Concept Gallery
Whenasked about the series that forms the heart of her current show, Feinberg said, “The title evokes the hope and inspiration brought by light, but it also carries the reminder that beacons can be warnings of hazards hidden in the darkness. The paintings are about both beauty and danger, taking a leap into these ideas using ocean and sky as visual metaphors. To hold these opposing visual and metaphorical ideas within a single image, to see and feel peace and sense discomfort – this is my goal.”
A native of New York City, Elen Feinberg has lived and painted in New Mexico since 1978. Working primarily in oil, she uses subjects ranging from the landscapes of the desert Southwest to oceans, and from atmospheric events to interstellar phenomena. Although inspired and informed by the natural world, her paintings are not literal interpretations of the earth and sky, rather they are inventions intended to shift nature and the visual world from the concrete to the sublime.
Elen’s work is included in numerous museum and corporate collections in the US. She has held several artist-in-residence grants both here and abroad and she is the recipient of numerous awards from prestigious organizations such as the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation.
Since her retirement as a Regent’s Professor at the University of New Mexico, where she taught drawing and painting for over 30 years, Elen has pursued the themes that have been at the center of her paintings for four decades: earth, water, sky, and our perception of light. Elen received her BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from Indiana University.
BEACON SERIES XI
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
36” x 64”
$8,000
BEACON SERIES VII
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
30” x 38”
$5,000
WEST WIND
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
28” x 34”
$5,000
BEACON SERIES I
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
11” x 13”
$3,000
BEACON SERIES IV
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
12” x 11”
SOLD
VOYAGE XII
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
50” x 14”
$4,250
BEACON SERIES III
Elen Feinberg
Oil on Linen
12” x 12”
$3,000
Not shown in installation photo: replacement for Beacon Series IV
BEACON SERIES VIII
Elen Feinberg Oil on Cotton Duck
28” x 38” SOLD
BEACON SERIES XIII
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
20” x 19”
SOLD
BEACON SERIES X
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
16” x 26”
$3,800
BEACON SERIES XII
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
12” x 12”
$3,000
SIGNAL
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
38” x 44”
SOLD
BEACON SERIES V
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
13” x 11”
$3,000
EVENING AT SEA
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
56” x 52”
SOLD
Not shown in installation photo: replacement for Signal
VOYAGE V
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
18” x 18”
$3,600
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
18” x 26”
$3,800
VOYAGE XIII
BEACON SERIES IX
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
11” x 13”
$3,000
BEACON SERIES II
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
11” x 13”
$3,000
BEACON SERIES VI
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
48” x 40”
$7,000
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
12” x 16”
$3,400
VOYAGE IX
Elen Feinberg Oil on Linen
18” x 18”
$3,600
VOYAGE VIII
ElEn FEinbErg’s aFFiliation with nEw ConCEpt gallEry ConCludEd with thE End oF hEr show, EFFEC tivE novEmbEr 24, 2025. inquiriEs madE bE madE dirEC tly to thE artist through hEr wEbsitE, at https://elenfeinbergstudio.com/
