Overview
The San Francisco-based artist has become known for creating beguiling works of deceptively minimal simplicity, using a basic technique of brushing lines of lightly pigmented watercolor in free-hand strokes across heavyweight paper. Extreme concentration is required to achieve the ethereal quality of these works – a result of hundreds of precisely timed and executed layers. The rigorous, almost punishing, process produces a contradictory effect of transcendent serenity and astonishing beauty.
Works
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Nicole Phungrasamee Fein21.10.18.01 Cobalt Blue Pyrrol Red Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue, 21.10.09.01 Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue Cobalt Blue Pyrrol Red, 21.08.24.01 Pyrrol Red Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue Cobalt Blue, 2021watercolor on paper (triptych)each
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45.7 x 45.7 cm
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Nicole Phungrasamee Fein21.08.16.01 Cerulean Blue Chromium Rose Madder Prussian Green Nickel Azo Yellow Scarlet Lake Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) Quinacridone Rose Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue Mayan Blue Genuine Cadmium Orange Hue Cadmium Red Purple Serpentine Genuine, 2021watercolor on paper8 x 8 in
20.3 x 20.3 cm
Exhibitions
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Drawn to Drawing
12 Jul - 16 Aug 2025Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the globe as well as the 16th...Read more -
OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism
11 Apr - 20 May 2023This sprawling group exhibition traces the use of the form of the grid in contemporary art, beginning with some of its most illustrious mid-20th century proponents. From there, it examines...Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Color Study 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s newest body of work marks an abrupt shift from a minimal palette of black, white and gray...Read more -
Where We Are
23 Oct - 24 Nov 2021In a group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of...Read more -
BETWEEN THEM
An Installation Composed of Drawings 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2019Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, from European...Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Vantage 31 Jan - 14 Mar 2015Nicole Phungrasamee Fein presents new watercolors on paper, including a new circular Tondi series, in her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. The San Francisco-based artist has become known for...Read more -
Look Both Ways
Banerjee, Campbell, Crotty, Danziger, DeFeo, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Hawkinson, Lukas, Maggi, O'Reilly, Ouadahi, Porter, Pwerle, Rath 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2012Hosfelt Gallery will inaugurate its new San Francisco venue with the group exhibition, Look Both Ways, opening at 260 Utah Street (at 16th Street) on September 8, 2012. Both a...Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Foci 23 Oct 2010 - 11 Dec 2011In her third solo show at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein presents two new bodies of work: intricate variations on the shockingly-precise, free-hand watercolors for which she has...Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Materialize 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2007Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s work is about processes of line making. Her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery is comprised of watercolor paintings on paper and three-dimensional works made of linen....Read more -
PATTERN VS. DECORATION
Chang, Danziger, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Higgins, Kürten, Liu, Ouadahi, Rodriguez, Adibi, Brand, Dopp, El Hanani, Grubin, Hackett, Hoferer, Mayer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Stenger, Wasson 12 Jul - 14 Aug 2007New York Gallery The “Pattern and Decoration” movement of the 1970s arose in response to the emergence of Minimalism and its strictures. It derived in part from Pop Art’s exuberant...Read more -
PATTERN VS. DECORATION
Chang, Danziger, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Higgins, Kürten, Liu, Ouadahi, Rodriguez, Adibi, Brand, Dopp, El Hanani, Grubin, Hackett, Hoferer, Mayer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Stenger, Wasson 16 Jun - 4 Aug 2007The “Pattern and Decoration” movement of the 1970s arose in response to the emergence of Minimalism and its strictures. It derived in part from Pop Art’s exuberant cultural mining and...Read more -
DELINEATION: Nelleke Beltjens, Dominic Di Mare, Jacob El Hanani, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Nelleke Beltjens, Dominic Di Mare, Jacob El Hanani 21 Jul - 18 Aug 2006New York Gallery This exhibition brings together work on paper by four artists using line as a their primary focus. Nelleke Beltjens’ large-scale ink drawings are made of thousands of...Read more -
HOSFELT GALLERY NEW YORK Preview
Campbell, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Higgins, Light, Liu, Maggi, Porter, Rubin, Andrews, Barnes, Beltjens, Chippendale, Dopp, Horn, Hsu, Kremer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Rose 18 Feb - 25 Mar 2006New York Gallery Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition in its new Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, venue. The exhibition spaces are designed around concepts of spatial flow and...Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Layers 16 Oct - 24 Dec 2004In her first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein shows exquisite watercolor paintings on paper. Beginning with only 4 pencil points that mark a square, and...Read more -
TROY STORY
Campbell, Phungrasamee Fein, Maggi, Porter, Amado, Ambe, El Hanani, Griffin, McClure, Ruscha, Shin Sigurdardottir, Solomon, Sugimoto 6 Jul - 21 Aug 2004In 1870, Heinrich Schlieman, an amateur archeologist from Germany, excavated a hill in present-day Turkey. In his search for the remains of the Troy described in Homer’s Iliad, he dug...Read more -
PAPER
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Michael Light, Marco Maggi, John O'Reilly, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Jacob El Hanani, Lukas Felzmann, Ron Griffin, Jill Lear, Wes Mills, Mark Sheinkman 19 Jul - 16 Aug 2003Paper is all new work made on paper, with paper or about paper by artists Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Jacob El Hanani, Nicole Fein, Lukas Felzmann, Ron Griffin, Jill Lear, Michael...Read more
Press
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The Grid Revisited
David M. Roth, Squarecylinder, May 1, 2023 -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein – Review
Donna Tennant, Visual Art Source, February 8, 2020 -
‘I Like Drawings”: A Conversation with Todd Hosfelt
Justin Manley, SquareCylinder, August 5, 2019 -
Surabhi Saraf turns folding laundry into an art
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2015 -
Handmade, meticulous abstractions playing with color at Gallery Joe
Ben Meyer, ArtBlog, November 1, 2012 -
NICOLE FEIN: IN CONVERSATION WITH WYNN KRAMARSKY & RACHEL NACKMAN
WYNN KRAMARSKY & RACHEL NACKMAN, AboutDrawing.Org, March 1, 2012
News
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HG Magazine Issue no. 35
COLOR: Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein Plus announcing New Website December 18, 2021Two concurrent solo exhibitions – Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll's Datum & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's Color Study – explore the properties and complexities of color....Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 31
Alan Rath exhibition opens; plus Rina Banerjee, Cornelius Völker, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein June 11, 2021Alan Rath opens June 19, 2021 Jim Campbell remembers Alan Rath Artist News: Rina Banerjee, Cornelius Völker New to Inventory: Nicole Phungrasamee Fein Whitney Museum...Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 7
Max Gimblett joins gallery; plus Lukas, Fein, Campbell, Hawkinson and Hilma af Klint documentary May 21, 2020Hosfelt Gallery announces representation of Max Gimblett Emil Lukas, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein and Jim Campbell share work from their studio New To Inventory: Tim Hawkinson...Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 6
Studio Visits: Lokai, Piccinini, Porter, Fein, Wiley, Schoultz, Kürten - plus GF carrot muffin recipe May 14, 2020Visit the studios of Bernard Lokai, Patricia Piccinini, Liliana Porter, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, William T. Wiley, Andrew Schoultz and Stefan Kürten Andrea Higgins shares a...Read more -
‘I Like Drawings”: A Conversation with Todd Hosfelt
Squarecylinder August 5, 2019Drawing, as Hosfelt has envisioned it, appears to have the structure of a decentralized network, patterned through endlessly overlapping family resemblances without any single center...Read more
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