[2] Feinstein applied for a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, but believes she was rejected because she wore a transparent plastic miniskirt[3] and a T-shirt reading "I'm a Satisfier" to the interview.
[1] She has said she was particularly inspired by the sculptors Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pino Pascali, Elie Nadelman, Tilman Riemenschneider and Antonio Canova.
[2][8] In that year she also showed at the Exit Art "Let the Artist Live" exhibit where she built a Sleeping Beauty's gingerbread house in which she actually slept.
The introduction was written by author James Frey and the book includes an interview conducted by filmmaker Sofia Coppola.
The exhibition opened to the public on November 1, 2019, and was organized by Kelly Taxter, The Jewish Museum's Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art.
[3] Vogue reported on her 40th birthday party in their new town house in Gramercy Park; its theme was "Miss Havisham" and guests were bid to "Dress Edwardian.
A reviewer remarked that rather than making a joke of the scene, as several contemporary artists had done, she had produced a work that was "startling" as well as "evocative and fresh.
She told an interview that being pregnant at the time, "I guess I was thinking about mortality, feminine beauty, my fears about being a mother and an artist.
The reviewer wrote the "(self-)portraits" felt "in line with the current vogue for noble iconography" and also described them as "celebratory caricatures, self-indulgent and vain."
"[15] In 2007 a steel gilded equestrian statue she called "Cuatro" for Don Quixote became part of the Public Art Project of Anyang, South Korea.
"[17] Notable pieces included a woman posing erotically, two dancing satyrs, a Renaissance-era avenging angel,[4] wood sculptures of prancing horses with white pompadors painted in high-gloss enamel[1][17] and a black stained collapsed wooden carriage holding a working lantern.
It combines Carpenter Gothic architecture and Baroque painting to present vignettes of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Snow Queen, showing Feinstein's "flair for synthesizing myriad fascinations.
"[3] The exhibited included painted wood toy soldiers, roses, children, and ice, as well as a lacquered gold coach which was displayed outside in the January snow.
The Vogue magazine reviewer wrote that she "explores the themes of fantasy, ruin, and beauty to create a magical universe of her own.
For it she created an impressionistic panoramic wallpaper of Rome covering different historical periods, painted and displayed on mirrors and accompanied by life size wooden sculptures inspired by depictions of early Christian saints and martyrs.
[23] Feinstein's works have been bought by some notable collectors, including Aby Rosen, Alberto Mugrabi[3] and James Frey.
"[3] A photographer friend was quoted as saying that while Currin seems "very macho and old-fashioned" and Feinstein "super-feminine," artistically he does very fine work with brushes while she uses a chainsaw and goggles in her studio.