Recentered HOPE: A Special Project by Roger Feldman

September 19–November 3, 2025

Losing a loved one is something that many of us can identify with and have experienced.

It was on January 27, 2025, that our daughter passed away from cancer. We were with her in Southern California for 7½ months to help her get through chemotherapy since she couldn’t drive. As an artist, I was getting frustrated by not being able to “make.” I went to an art store, bought some chipboard, a metal ruler, and an Exacto knife. I began making 4½”x 4½” maquettes for large-scale installations. Our daughter saw them being made, and she understood. By the time she died, I had completed 50. After we drove back to Seattle, I continued to make more as an act of grieving. It helped me process her death. I finished another 50 and stopped. It occurred to me that the first 50 were about HOPE, hoping she would beat the cancer. It also occurred to me that the second 50—done in Seattle—were about Recentered HOPE. She was a committed Christian who went to Seminary, got a master’s degree in Intercultural Studies, and worked in ministry for 20 years before she passed. We know where she is, and her ministry community has felt the loss. She has moved on to the ultimate place of HOPE.

This show also includes paintings from the HOPE series from when I had Covid before there was even testing. I was so grateful to be alive after recovering from the realities of Covid that I utilized a color palette that I learned from Vincent Van Gogh. Warm yellows, oranges, and reds—positive feeling colors in response to being alive! The ten paintings are from a series of 64. It was this HOPE series facing death that I associated with what our daughter was going through.

The Giclee prints are of large-scale installations that I did in 2014 and 2022 when my daughter helped during her times at home. One of the installations was done in Pasadena, where she lived, and she showed up daily to help her dad. These images are a tribute to her and her continual willingness to “help.” We are so grateful to God for allowing us to raise this beautiful and empathetic woman whose life was given in service to others. Thank you, Kirsten Bree Feldman, for who you became. We are proud of you.

—Roger Feldman

Roger Feldman completed his undergraduate degree in art at the University of Washington and his MFA in sculpture at Claremont Graduate University. His installations have been exhibited since the late 1970s and he received an Individual Artist NEA Fellowship in 1986. His site-specific installations and maquettes have been shown in six countries and throughout the United States.

All works are for sale unless marked by a red dot. Please visit Roger’s website at rogerfeldman.com for more details about his work and to contact the artist for purchase enquiries.

­—Gina Cavallo, Curator & Director of Development