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Melissa Morgan Fine Art News : Carole Feuerman

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August 8, 2022

From: Melissa Morgan Fine Art

Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three major artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style. Her career is highlighted by iconic figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery; the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Venice Biennale; and Palazzo Strozzi Palace in Florence, Italy, among others.

Life-size Pisces was unveiled for the first time in Saint-Tropez, France

Bibi On The Ball, Bronze, 64 x 46 x 34 inches (Venice Boat Show 2022, Venice, Italy)

Carole A. Feuerman: Balance in the making

Feuerman received the Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award in 1981. In 1982, she received the Amelia Peabody Award for sculpture. In 2016, she received Best in Show Award for her sculpture ‘Mona Lisa’ by the Huan Tai Museum. The sculpture was acquired for their permanent collection. Feuerman has also been awarded the Medici Prize by the City of Florence, First Prize at the Beijing Biennale, and the Austrian Biennale, and in 2008 she received First Prize in the Olympic Fine Art exhibition in Beijing. The piece was acquired by the Olympic Museum.

She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. Her artworks are owned by eighteen museums, as well as in the collections of the City of Peekskill, New York, the City of Sunnyvale California, President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Mikhail Gorbachev Art Foundation, Mr. Steven A. Cohen, Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, and the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection.

Feuerman’s public works have been displayed across the globe, including but not limited to: Central Park and SoHo, New York, l' Avenue George V in Paris, Harbor City in Hong Kong, Milan, Rome, Giardino della Marinaressa in Italy, New Bond Street, Canary Wharf in London, and Knokke Heist in Belgium.

Life-Size works by Feuerman

Contemplation, Lacquer, resin, 24k gold leaf, 34 x 42 x 22 inches

Leda and The Swan, Lacquer on epoxy, 42 x 80 x 90 inches (Venice Biennale 2015, Venice, Italy)

Girl With Red Hat, Lacquer over bronze, 65 x 24 x 24 inches

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For more information on available works or commissions by Feuerman,
please contact the gallery: (760)341-1056 or [email protected]