Feb 10, 2021
For Tom Feeley, family came first. He was a loving husband of 52 years, father of four, grandfather to 9, brother to 11, and cousin, uncle, great-uncle, and dear friend to too many to count.
Tom was born in Cambridge, MA, on November 19, 1945, and grew up in a large Irish-American family in Melrose, MA. In 1968, he married the love of his life, Joan (Sullivan), one of nine children from a family across town. Tom graduated from Melrose High School in 1963, received his Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Salem State College in 1968, his Master of Business Administration from Babson College in 1971, and his Master of Science in Taxation from Bentley College in 1982. Tom was elected to the Melrose Board of Alderman from 1974-78 and served as President from 1977-78. In 1978, Tom and Joan moved to Andover, MA to raise their family. Over the last 15 years he and Joan have divided their time between Andover, Kennebunk, ME, and Sanibel, FL.
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The late Iowa-born artist Paul Feeley was recognized for his minimalist, abstract paintings and sculptures. His work was billed as intensely formal, but technically groundbreaking. Although his pieces portrayed simple shapes and sometimes gestural motifs, they evoked real life experiences. From 1962-66, he developed a series of paintings of jacks which derived from his utmost fascination with seriality and repetition.
Feeley will be the subject of a solo exhibition called “Space Stands Still” at London’s Waddington Custot gallery. The presentation chronicles the development of Feeley’s abstraction over his short yet prolific career, displaying works from the 1950s through to those created just before his death in 1966 at the age of 55.