Adam Feibelman Bio

     Artist at large Adam Eli Feibelman, originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997. Honored with the California College of Arts in Crafts’ Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship, Adam pursued a double major there in illustration and printmaking. 

     Degree in hand, Adam went on to develop a mode of working all his own, in multiple-layer hand-cut photo-realistic stencil paintings. A hallmark of Adam’s artistic efforts is the palpable evolution in his process. Thus, over time, the tools of his trade became the focus of his work, sewing together and assembling the paper stencils to make abstractions of the images he had painted. His stencil assemblies continue to be exhibited nationally and internationally and have been favorably reviewed several times. “Feibelman’s intricate cutouts have an abstract look at first, but their details gradually sort themselves into images of water, vessels and shorelines. I have seen nothing else quite like them.,” said Kenneth Baker, former art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle. In a more recent write up concerning Adam’s 2017 conceptual exhibition about immigration, Charles Desmarais of the Chronicle said,  “A combination of thoughtful criticism and biting wit.” “Feibelman’s is a marvel of stencil-cut paper, a hand-worked tribute to traditional weavers of the 17th century.” The evolution in Adam’s work continues its experimentation with materials in service to his ideas, creating an increasingly broad repertoire, which has enabled a push into the world of public art.     

     Adam has been featured on television (Spark KQED), and on NPR, in Harper’s magazine and Juxtapoz. His work has been included in traveling museum exhibitions, he has received multiple private grants, has been artist-in-residence at the Tamarind Institute. His work is in the collections of Kevin King and Neil Young.

     For several years Adam has been accepting private and public commissions, which, by now include eight pieces for the 49ers’ Levi’s stadium in Santa Clara, CA , a four-story load-bearing cut-steel staircase in a private residence in Palo Alto, CA, and a 173 linear foot, cut-steel, permanent installation at the Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center In San Francisco (to name a few!). He is currently working on two major public works, one for the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), the other for the County of San Mateo, CA.