BIOGRAPHY
Carole Feuerman is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most prominent hyper-realist sculptors. She has enjoyed three museum retrospectives to date, and has been included in prestigious exhibitions at, among other venues, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.
Among the notable honors Feuerman has received are the Amelia Peabody Sculpture Award, the Betty Parsons Award in sculpture, the Lorenzo de Medici Prize at the 2001 Biennale di Firenze, and First Prize at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Her work is in the collections of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, the Absolut Art Collection, and Forbes Magazine, among others. Public collections include The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Bass Museum in Miami Beach, The Tampa Museum, The Boca Raton Museum, The Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, The Miami Children's Museum, Queensborough Community College Art Museum, Brandeis University, and Grounds for Sculpture.
This past decade alone saw Feuerman honored with prominent solo exhibitions around the world, and numerous publications. Her work was featured in "An American Odyssey, 1945/1980: Debating Modernism," a survey including over a hundred works and seen in Spain and New York in 2004. The following year she was given a comprehensive one-person show, entitled "Resin to Bronze Topographies," at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. In 2007 Feuerman's solo exhibition, "By the Sea," appeared at the Pavilion Paradiso in connection with the Biennale di Venezia, followed by a solo show, "Lust & Desire," at the art-st.-urban sculpture center outside Luzern, Switzerland. The following year, besides recognition in both the Third International Beijing Biennale and in the same city's Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, Feuerman mounted a solo show, "La Scultura incontra la Realta," at Florence's Moretti Fine Art, and was included in Venice's OPEN International Sculpture Exhibition. At the end of 2008, Feuerman's retrospective, "Silence-Passion-Expression," was mounted at the Amarillo Art Museum in Texas; the exhibition was nominated for Best Monographic Exhibition in the annual poll of members by the American Section of the International Art Critics Association.
In 2009 Feuerman was featured in "46 XX," an exhibition of four female artists at Moscow's Na Solyanke State Gallery; showcased in a solo outdoor exhibition along with Etruscan sculpture at the Archeological Museum in Fiesole, Italy; given a solo exhibition, "Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes," at Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York; and included in "Art and Illusion: Masterpieces of trompe-l'oeil from Antiquity to the Present" at the Palazzo Strozzi.
This decade has begun with the publication by Hudson Hills Press of the second edition of Carole A. Feuerman: Sculpture, written by Eleanor Munro and David Finn, the latest in a long string of publications and catalogues going back more than thirty years, and with the inclusion of her Monumental Shower in "intimacy!", an exhibition at Germany's Kunstmuseum Ahlen.
Exhibitions in the spring 2010 include one-person shows at Dvorak Sec Contemporary in Prague; Amsterdam's Amstel Gallery; Galerie Klose in Essen, Germany; and the Louise Alexander Gallery in Porto Cervo, Italy. Sculpturesite in San Francisco will mount a Feuerman show during the San Francisco Fine Art Fair and her work will also be featured by the Amstel Gallery and New York's Jim Kempner Gallery at Art Chicago. Her retrospective travels to the El Paso Museum of Art in August, and in the fall she will show in two south Florida galleries, Palm Beach's Gallery Biba and Boca Raton's Elaine Baker Gallery. In 2011 Feuerman's retrospective travels to Seoul and she will exhibit in Hong Kong in the New Gallery during the Hong Kong Art Fair.
- Peter Frank
