Dr. Jane Evans
Gallery Director, UAHC

An artist of remarkable versatility, she was born in New York and studied at a number of this city's major institutions. These include Pratt Institute, New York University, the Art Students League and other schools. While living abroad for more than a decade, Harriet FeBland not only continued her studies but also exhibited in Paris and London.

Upon returning to the United States the artist opened a studio in both New York and Westchester County. She gained recognition as a pioneer constructivist sculptor/painter and as a visionary Innovator. She coined the term "construction sculpture" now part of the art lexicon, to describe her work. At times she worked with a large variety of unusual materials before they became accepted by others, including Plexiglas, acrylics, metals (nails), and even electricity. Eventually, Ms. FeBland's reputation was made with her large and sometimes monumental totems and other powerful personal or universal symbols. The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology credits her early use of plastics to build major wall-reliefs and other works. Many of these commissions are in collections such as Metromedia, Los Angeles, the Sealy Corporation in Chicago and others across the United States. Throughout her career she has also produced small boxes, some are relief-constructions that hang on the wall or are standing sculpture. These she states "are intimate works, and a departure from the power of huge sculpture, which can become an environment."

Harriet FeBland's art has been shown in a broad range of exhibitions across the United States and Europe in major galleries, museums, as well as in dozens of published volumes. She has been a college faculty member, taught at New York University and the founder of the school for advanced painters called the Harriet FeBland Art Workshop. Her workshops have been given at London University and across the country.

Significantly, a woman and a pioneer artist like FeBland was chosen for the exhibition at UAHC to end the millennium and begin a new era. Her career, ripe with the innovations she introduced from the early 60's to the present heralds things to come in our future.

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Last updated: 2005