About
Richard Finkelstein has followed several career paths. He was a public defender in New York, an assistant clinical professor of law and director of the NYU Criminal Law Clinic, and co-founder and director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a public interest law office. Having originally come to New York from Philadelphia with the intention of becoming a painter, he decided to move on from law and go back to the studio full time. He began showing large charcoal drawings and paintings at the DFN Gallery in New York and later began to make animations, and build sets and dioramas, which he turned into large format narrative photographs. One of his projects was the current series Sitting in the Dark With Strangers. He is currently represented by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York.
Representation
Robert Mann Gallery
508 W 26th St Suite 9F, New York, NY 10001
Contact
rickfinkelstein@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions
2018
New, Used, Rare, and Out of Print, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
2017
You Lose Yourself, You Reappear, BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015
Sitting in the Dark with Strangers, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
2013
A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
2008
New Work, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Crime Seen, Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties, New York
2004
Without Wings, (Drawings and Animation), DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Love & Squalor, (Drawings and Animation), Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Group Exhibitions
2016
Back at the Water's Edge, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Gallery Artists, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Looks Good on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Peaceable Kingdom, BCB Art, Hudson, NY
2007
Vice, BCB Art, Hudson, NY
Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
New York at Night, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Gallery Artists, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Five Uneasy Pieces, Inquiring Mind Gallery, New York, NY
2005
10th Anniversary Show, DFN Gallery, New York , NY
Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2004
NYC, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
The Voting Booth Project, (Installation), Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Summer Shorts, (Video Installation), Parkers Box, Williamsburg, NY
Water Color, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003
People, Place, Things, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY