Aline Feldman

Born in 1928, Aline Feldman grew up in Kansas and studied design and printmaking at Washington University in St. Louis under Werner Drewes and Fred Becker. In graduate school at Indiana University, she worked with Seong Moy; later, in Washington, DC, she studied Japanese woodcut with Unichi Hiratsuka. With him Feldman learned the art of multiple block printing in colors. Finding this technique limiting, Feldman added the white-line method of woodcuts, which had been popularized by the Provincetown printmakers at the beginning of the 20th century.

Feldman uses a method that she calls “non-traditional” white line woodcut technique, adapted from a classical Japanese woodcut technique in which patterns cut into wood are painted and transferred onto a more viable medium, like paper. She employs unconventional tools, such as everyday kitchen and sewing utensils, to craft her cuttings, enabling the expansion of the wood cutting possibilities and allowing for more experimentation with light and form.

Feldman first exhibited professionally at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 1979 and later exhibited in Howard County, Maryland, across the United States and internationally in China, Europe and Australia. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, London, Honolulu, St. Louis, North Carolina and West Virginia.