Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It’s scarcely enough to label Irish artist Fergus Feehily’s compact abstract paintings, now on view at Post Times, surprising or revelatory. They accomplish more by describing, usually in a succinct vertical rectangle, what seems ineffable, delivering idiosyncratic Hickey-esque frissons of beauty and wit. You take a look, get a feeling, spy the title, and say, “Oh yeah, that’s right.” They’re all ingeniously pithy, some more immediately accessible than others. Windowpane Putty looks like what that name says; the news is how beautiful a sloppy DIY repair, or rain and dirt, can be. The pocket-Rauschenbergian Suburban Sphinx, juxtaposing lightly painted corrugated cardboard and wood components, captures the stolid big-box allusion. And the delicate pink and spare glitter of Midrainbow make ready sense of the title, and with dazzlingly unique lyrical efficiency.
