Ronald Feldman, the American gallerist who played a major part in the careers of Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Hannah Wilke and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, among others, has died. Originally working as a corporate lawyer, he quit to open premises in 1971 on East 74th Street, moving to SoHo ten years later.
In 1975 Burden presented White Light/White Heat, in which the artist lay flat, hidden from view, on a raised platform built in the gallery, present throughout the exhibition’s three week run; in 1984 Feldman gave Ukeles space to present the fruits of her long-term unpaid residency she had initiated for herself with the New York sanitation department.
Throughout the 1980s Feldman collaborated with Andy Warhol on portfolios of prints and paintings, including Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, Myths, Ads, and Endangered Species.
The Feldman Gallery continues under the management of Mark Feldman, the gallerist’s son.
