Carole A. Feuerman
“Throughout my artistic career, my style has undergone many transformations, but my passion for art and my love of creating art endure.”
Carole A. Feuerman (1945) is an American superrealist sculptor born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently lives and works in New York. She is best known for her figurative sculptures depicting swimmers and dancers. Feuerman is the only woman to sculpt in this style, creating both indoor and outdoor works that are painted lifelike. (Read More)
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In the mid-1970s, Feuerman was creating 3D illustrations for magazine covers and world tour books, featuring rock stars like the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper. In 1975, she did her first life casting for the cover of the National Lampoon. In the late 1970s, Feuerman began creating fragmented erotic works, adding a new dimension of controversial complexity to her art. She is a narrative artist, instilling her sculptures with conceptual narrative elements. Her works go beyond what fools the eye, inviting viewers to complete the story. In the 1980s, hypothesized by postmodernist thought, she left the fragment behind and began to create full-figure realistic sculptures. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, which fosters under-represented female artists, ensures archival initiatives, and encourages research leading to new scholarship in the field of sculpture.
Her passion for water and the ocean stems from her childhood memories spent at the beach. Feuerman describes the sensation of water droplets on her skin after swimming and the intricate patterns they formed as captivating. The beach became her sanctuary—a place of escape and tranquility. It was during a beach outing with her children that she encountered a swimmer with water droplets streaming down her face, radiating a sense of pride and accomplishment. This encounter catalyzed her first swimmer sculpture titled Catalina (1978).
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Awards & Honors
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, Athens, Greece
2008 1st Prize, Third International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
1st Prize, Beijing Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, China
2006 2nd International Biennale of Austria, Huttenberg, Austria
2001 Lorenzo de’Medici Prize, Florence, Italy
1995 2nd Fujisankei Sculpture Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Important Exhibitions
2023 Egyptian Woman in the Form of the Goddess Hathor, Art D’ Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Sea Idylls, POPA, Park Avenue, New York, USA
2020 Expo Hyper-Realism Sculpture, La Boverie, Liège, Belgium
2019 Between the Drops, Art of the World Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013-2014 General’s Daughter, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
2012 Next Summer, Public installation at Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida, USA
2009 Maxima, Roman Theater Museum of Archaeology, Florence, Italy
2007 Lust and Desire, Erotic Sculptures from 1979 – 2006, Art St. Urban Museum & Sculpture Park, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000 From Studio to Foundry: Three Decades of Sculpture by Carole A. Feuerman, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania, USA
1979 Art 10 ’79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Biennales
2022 Venice Boat Show, Arsenale, Venice Biennale of Art, Venice, Italy
2016 Paradise in Paradiso, Concilio Europeo Dell’ Arte, 2016 International Venice Biennale Architecture, Venice, Italy
2015 Structures Crossing Borders, Global Arts Foundation, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2007 Bellezza E Beressaze In: By the Sea, Curated by John T. Spike, European Council of Art Foundation, In Paradiso Gallery, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Permanent Collections
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, USA
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, USA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, USA