What Stayed With Me is a solo exhibition by Yehudit Feinstein, presenting works on paper and canvas created with markers and mixed media. Rooted in memory, inheritance, and personal narrative, the exhibition examines how lived experience is carried forward through repetition, gesture, and the accumulation of marks over time.

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Feinstein’s drawings unfold as emotional landscapes, moving fluidly between the intimate and the collective. Family histories, moments of rupture, loss, and acts of rebuilding surface not as linear stories, but as traces, layered, revisited, and reworked. Line becomes both language and residue: a way of holding what cannot be fully articulated, yet refuses to disappear.

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What Stayed With Me invites reflection on how images, gestures, and stories persist within us, shaping identity and opening a shared space for connection and dialogue between artist, artwork, and audience.

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Yehudit Feinstein’s art resides at the delicate intersection of memory and erasure, home and exile, past and present. Drawing from her family’s history, marked by Holocaust survival, war, and migration, Feinstein’s drawings and paintings explore landscapes of belonging, loss, and displacement. Her work reimagines the concept of paradise not as a static, distant ideal but as a mutable, shifting space where memory, trauma, and imagination intertwine to create new pathways forward into the unknown.

Feinstein’s process begins with an exploration of personal history, drawing from memory, photographs, and objects that have shaped her life. Her inspirations, wallpapers, vases, aprons, and tablecloths passed down from her grandmother and mother carry deep personal significance and inform the intricate, layered compositions that characterize her work. These artifacts, laden with family history, evoke themes of home and belonging.

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Each piece begins with pencil sketches, created intuitively to allow subconscious recollections to emerge. This process evolves with the introduction of color, using Crayola markers, a medium that holds both nostalgic and liberating significance for the artist. Growing up, Crayola markers were once an unattainable luxury, and their present accessibility imbues them with new meaning. As she layers color, the work transforms organically, with connections between elements unfolding naturally. This convergence of memory and invention brings new life to the work, allowing fragments of the past to be reimagined within a new reality.

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Feinstein’s practice transcends national and ideological boundaries, reflecting her multifaceted heritage. Her work destabilizes the notion of fixed identities and borders, inviting viewers to reconsider their own relationships to place, belonging, and the limits imposed by circumstance. Through artifacts of her ancestry, stained letters, old textiles, and fragmented maps, Feinstein excavates lost histories while reimagining new ones.