American artist, Carlin Felder, is best known for her Macro Expressionist style of photography which focuses on color & form. Using the camera lens as a paint brush, her photography is active and intuitive, derived from shapes in nature and their relationship to the day’s light.

Influenced by the luminous works of Color Field painters such as Mark Rothko, Felder infuses her photographs with a profound sense of mood and atmosphere. Like Rothko, she understands the transformative power of light, utilizing it to imbue her subjects with depth and resonance. Through her lens, ordinary objects take on a transcendent quality.

Born in Houston, Texas in 1967, she studied fine art at the University of North Texas from 1987-1995. Now residing in Beacon, New York, Felder has expanded her body of work to include watercolor and mixed media paintings inspired by her experiences growing up with the vast Texas landscape and the often condensed and compact views between the Hudson Highlands and the Hudson River.

Felder’s eclectic studio practice explores the relationship between the elements of air, earth and water on both paper and canvas.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Newburgh Open Studios – Newburgh, NY – 2023

Newburgh Open Studios – Newburgh, NY – 2022

Beacon Arts Group Show – Beacon, NY – 2022

Beacon Arts Group Show – Beacon, NY – 2019

FREEZE Group Show – Jersey City, NJ – 2011

Gallery U Group Show- Montclair, NJ – 2011

Publications

Blurred Stripes – 2016

Macro Expressionism Volume 1 – 2014

Macro Expressionism: Manifesto of Expressionism in Macro Photography – 2014