Rochelle Feinstein has developed an oeuvre that probes the cultural and political implications of art making, and painting in particular, through an approach that could be described as self-conscious abstraction. The Research Park series was seeded through the collection of varied “enigmas”; phrases that became drawings. They index familiar vernacular expressions both overheard and read. This catalogue of language became a catalyst for the material and visual form of each painting. Multiple layers were screened until language obscured itself, creating an impenetrable field of commonly used words that cannot be understood, or sensibly used, becoming the visual equivalent of too much communication. Feinstein’s work is part of the public collections of Lenbachhaus, Munich; MoMA, New York and Perez Art Museum, Miami. Feinstein is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University.