I merge spatial and color experience into sculpturally painted spaces. Through my studio practice and past architectural work, I have found visual perception to be not only relative, but the primary motivation for the design and understanding of our built environment and have developed a creative process to further explore this belief.
My paintings utilize architectural perspective conventions as a framework to estimate our visual experience of space. These spatial conditions are then inflected by careful color choices utilizing the extreme relativeness of color to form both tender transitions and crass aberrations.
My installation and sculptural works also take advantage of this concept using color as an integral element to augment and redefine the understanding of form and context. My visual language also incorporates screentone patterns used in classic architectural drawings and iconographs from my personal history. All these elements combine to create a sensorial experience of place blurring the boundaries of painting and architecture.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
· Littauer Center, Harvard Library, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
· Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University
· Helen C Purdy Collections, Special Collections, University of Miami Library
· Brazil-Schoenberg Special Collections, Alfred R Goldstein Library, Ringling College of Art and Design
· Print Center New York (Formerly: International Print Center New York)
· Books as Aesthetic Objects Collection, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University
· The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Special Collections
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
· Borrowed Light, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach FL: solo exhibition.
· Mingo Art Collective, Fort Lauderdale FL: solo exhibition.
· Parallax, FATVillage Metaverse: virtual interactive installation.
2022
· 2022 Florida Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL: curated by Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon
· Extreme Pressure Biennial of American Prints, Weber Gallery Center, Ocala FL: curated by Janet Ballweg
· 4th Annual Orlando Foundation for Architecture Art Show, Orlando FL
· Exposed, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL
2021
· 31st Annual All-Florida Juried Arts Show, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart FL
· Expanding Printmaking, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL: curated by Carol Prusa and Joseph Velasquez.
· Open House Miami Beach, Miami Beach Library Gallery, Miami Beach FL: by Joshua Carden.
· Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL: curated by Natalie Luong and Richard Rodriguez.
2020
· 30th Annual All-Florida Juried Arts Show, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart FL: curated by Lisa Rockford.
· Saturation, Laundromat Art Space, Miami FL: curated by Erin Parish.
· Layers, Claudia Castillo Gallery, Wilton Manors FL: featured artist.
· The Book as Art v8 Infinity, Decatur Arts Alliance and Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur GA
2019
· In Exchange, FATVillage Projects, Fort Lauderdale FL: collaborative painted and screen printed installation with M. Vargas.
· The Unmade Room, Fort Lauderdale FL: limited edition fine art book published by I.S. Projects.
· Courtroom Sessions , Court House Cultural Center, Stuart FL
· 18008, FATVillage Projects, Fort Lauderdale FL: wall painting.
· Biennial Art Auction XVIII, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA: Painted work selected for main feature, display and auctioned to benefit LBMA programing.
· Chroma 3, The New Normal, Laundromat Art Space, Miami FL: site specific exterior installation.
· Prism, Frank C. Otis Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines FL
· Hidden Color Redux, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL: site specific installation.
2018
· Hidden Color , CASACOR Miami, Miami FL: site specific installation.
· Avant Garde, DBA Exhibit 2018, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: painted works and sculpture exhibited as part of the DBA 10th Anniversary exhibit.
· Perceptual Tracking , Frank C. Otis Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines FL: painted works and a large site specific installation in collaboration with L. Brown and P. Symons.
· Chroma, White Space, West Palm Beach FL: exterior site specific installation.
2017
· Exposed, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL
· Chroma 2, Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale FL: painted works and a site specific installation.
2016
· Meraki , Arts Garage, Delray Beach FL: duo exhibition presenting painted works.
· REDUX: Taking Measure of Chance and Outcomes, BaCA, Pompano Beach FL
2015
· Retrospective: DBA Exhibit 2015, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: group retrospective show of past DBA artists and curators.
· Taking Measure of Chance and Outcomes, Fort Lauderdale FL
· Christian Feneck, solo show Box Gallery, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL
· Abracadabra Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL
· Verve , Tedd Davis Art Works, Fort Lauderdale FL
2014
· Christian Feneck: Color Studies, solo show Tedd Davis Art Works, Wilton Manors FL
· Haptic Colors, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL: curator and contributing artist. 14005 + 14006, a large scale painted installation.
· Synesthetic, The Game Show, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL: an interactive mixed media installation.
· Emergent: DBA Exhibit 2014, Gallery 6, Fort Lauderdale FL: curator and contributing artist.
2013
· artBRAVO, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: painted works chosen for inclusion in the annual juried exhibition and competition.
· Red Eye Art Show, ArtServe, Ft Lauderdale FL
· The Unmade Room, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL: curator and contributing artist. Fluid Space, a large scale mixed media installation in collaboration with P.Symons.
· 2013 Faculty Exhibit, 2nd Avenue Studio Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL: curator and contributing artist.
2012
· artBRAVO , ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: painted works chosen for inclusion in the annual juried exhibition and competition.
· Island City Art Walk, Wilton Manors FL
· Inward Perception, Nocturnes 2012, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL: large scale mixed media installation.
· Palm, Red Eye Art Show, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: site specific mixed media installation.
· BIG Art Show, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL
2011
· New Faces of Hollywood, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale: large scale mixed media installation with P. Symons and L. Brown.
· SMART Ride Art Show, 2nd Avenue Studio Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL
· Nocturnes, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL: large scale mixed media installation with P. Symons.
· Abracadabra Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL
2010 and earlier
· Red Eye Art Show, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL: painted works and a large scale exterior installation.
· Small Wonders (Art) Salon, Artformz Gallery, Miami FL
· Revealing Implied Planes, Sola Creo Art and Architecture Exhibit, Tampa FL: site specific multimedia installation.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
· Artist residency, Art Incubator, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale FL, 2018-2019
· Faces of Art, Fort Lauderdale FL: selected as one of thirty-three artists in the community, 2013
· DBA Art Exhibition, Broward County FL: Awarded the curatorship position for the 2014 DBA Art Exhibit highlighting the artistic work of AEI graduates, 2013
· Creative Investment Program Grant, Broward County FL: grant to fund the 2014 DBA Art Exhibition: Emergent.
· Judges Recognition at artBRAVO, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL, 2013
· First Place Installation, Red Eye Art Show, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL, 2010
PRESS
· Turning up the Vibrancy, Island Magazine, article by Hilary Lewis, 2023
· Christian Feneck, interview CanvasRebel Magazine, 2022
· Painter Christian Feneck Just Created The Coolest Coffee Table Book Ever Made, interview, MichaelMackie.com, 2020
· Meet Christian Feneck | Artist, SHOUTOUT MIAMI, 2020
· 'New Normal' Explores Miami's Bleak Future by Monica Torres, Miami Art Zine, 2019
· CASACOR Miami Yearbook article by Christopher Govier, 2018
· How Casacor Miami Brought the Best of Interior Design to Art Basel by Arianne Nardo, Robb Report, 2018
· Meet Christian Feneck: Abstract Artist, interview, MichaelMackie.com, 2018
· Artists play with light and dark in Pembroke Pines by Philip Valys, SouthFlorida.com, 2018
· Christian Feneck, interview, Voyage MIA Magazine, 2018
· Local Color, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, 2015
· From Architecture to Art by Helene Foster, Cultural Quarterly, Spring 2015
· Feast of Colors, Think Magazine, 2015
· Turning Inside Out by Ashley Turner, Go Riverwalk Magazine, 2013
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
· Master of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, 2004
· Bachelor of Design in Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, 2002