Carole A. Feuerman | 50 Years
ON VIEW
December 5, 2019- January 31, 2020
LOCATION
231 10th Ave
New York, NY
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Carole A. Feuerman is acknowledged, alongside Duane Hanson and John D'Andrea, as one of the three major American hyperrealist sculptors that started the movement in the 1970s. Feuerman’s career spans over four decades and four continents. At the heart of her sculptures are visual stories of strength, survival, and balance. Feuerman has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Columbia University, and Grounds for Sculpture. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Feuerman has had solo museum retrospectives at the El Paso Museum in Texas, the Huan Tai Hu Museum of Jiangsu Province in China, the Amerillo Art Museum, the Tampa Museum, the Southern Allegneny Museum, QCC, CUNY Museum, and the Queens Museum of Art. In 2013, her sculpture, The General’s Daughter was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
In 2007, Feuerman had a solo exhibition in Venice called Bellezza E Beressaze: By the Sea, in the Venice Biennale, curated by John T. Spike, featuring her monumental sculpture Survival of Serena for the first time. In 2008, Survival of Serena was chosen ‘Best in The Show’ at the Beijing Biennale and was exhibited at the National Museum of China. In 2013, Survival of Serena was chosen by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation for exhibition in Soho, New York and again in 2017 it was exhibited in Central Park for their celebration of 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks.
Currently Feuerman has nine monumental sculptures in Paris on the Champs- Élysées and Avenue George V. Her iconic sculptures Catalina and The General’s Daughter are traveling in a group show titled 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture. The show originated in 2016 at Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain and then traveled to the Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid, to the Marco Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, to Denmark’s Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Sydney, the Kunsthal Tübingen in Germany, the Heydar Aliyev in Azerbaijan and is now at The National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
Her art is included in the collections of the President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederic R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Michael Gorbachev Art Foundation, The State Hermitage, the Metropolitan Museum and the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection. Feuerman's selected awards include Best in Show at the Third International Beijing Art Biennale, Beijing, CN, the 2001 Lorenzo De Magnifico Award for the Biennale Internazionale: Dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy, The Prize of Honor in 2002 for the Ausstellungszentrum Heft in Huttenberg, Austria, and the Medici Prize awarded by the City of Florence. There are four full-color monographs written about her work. Feuerman lives and works in New York City.
Chase Contemporary is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition and book signing with renowned American sculptor Carole Feuerman. The exhibition, which celebrates the artist’s illustrious 50-year-career, will feature bronze and hyperreal work in both tabletop and lifesize scale, and will introduce Feuerman’s newest sculptures. The artist will be signing her new book at the opening, “Carole A. Feuerman: 50 Years and Still Looking Good,” published by Scheidegger & Spiess, with a forward by John T. Spike and essays by John Yau and Claudia Moscovici. An opening reception will be held on November 7th from 5:30- 8:00pm at the gallery’s 231 10th Ave location.
Carole Feuerman 50 Years of Looking Good will include Feuerman latest 2019 editions of Miniature Serena with Swarovski Crystal Cap, modeled after her most iconic monumental sculpture, The Survival of Serena, which debuted in 2007 at the Venice Biennale. Also on exhibit will be a life-size bronze sculpture of Feuerman’s most coveted male sculpture, The Diver, modelled after the monumental sculpture The Golden Mean which lives permanently on the Hudson River in Peekskill, NY. Debuting for the first time is her painted male sculpture called The Thinker.
Feuerman’s work explores the strength and resilience of the human spirit. She aims to convey the balance required to persevere in life and the victory of survival. Feuerman’s Miniature Quan casts a female swimmer balancing on top of a sphere, looking down over the world. Her first monumental “Quan” sculpture, inspired by the Chinese goddess of compassion, was created in 2012 for the ECC (European Cultural Exchange) Biennale exhibition, and was exhibited in Venice in 2013 at Palazzo Bembo. Her poise and equilibrium are metaphors for Quan’s calm and thoughtful judgment.
Two other sculptures, Kendall Island and Yaima and the Ball were exhibited by a civic arts group, Sculpture for New Orleans, for a two-year residence (2015–17) on the Poydras Corridor. Kendall is an island in the Canadian arctic; Yaima gained her athletic physique on the Cuban national volleyball team. Both personified the best kind of public park statuary today – monuments to human perseverance and well-being.
This year, 2019, Carole Feuerman unveiled in the Giardino della Marinaressa a huge, pensive, monumental bronze sculpture that she named The Thinker. The exhibition will debut the hyperreal painted resin version of this work. This fall, Feuerman also celebrates nine monumental outdoor sculpture exhibition on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France.
Lifelike physical representations of objects were brought to life by classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman art, all of which rendered the beauty, movement, and sinuosity of the human body in their sculptures. Feuerman continues these ancient aesthetic ideals - embodied in the human form- in her contemporary sculptures.
