Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Artist of the day, May 2: Carole A. Feuerman, American sculptor (Hyperrealism)

Carole A. Feuerman (1945) is an American sculptor and artist working in Hyperrealism, a movement that began in the 1970s in relation to photorealist painting. Feuerman was a full generation younger than Duane Hanson and John de Andrea, the pioneers of Hyperrealism in figurative sculpture. Dubbed "the reigning doyenne of super-realism" by art historian John T. Spike, Feuerman is known for her lifelike portrayals of swimmers.

Feuerman’s prolific career spans over four decades and four continents. Through her sculptures, she creates visual manifestations of the stories she wants to tell; of strength, survival, balance. Feuerman has produced a rich body of work in the studio and the public realm. By combining conventional sculptural materials of steel, bronze, and resin, with more unconventional media like water, sound, and video, she creates hybrid works of intricate energy and psychology.

She 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. She continues her focus on public outdoor sculptures, working primarily in bronze.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Carole A. Feuerman/Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.

 Mrs Carole A. Feuerman



Grande Catalina

Grande Catalina construction

Balance

Balance detail

Bibi on the Ball

Capri

Christina

Christina detail

Chrysalis

Chrysalis detail

City Slicker



DurgaMa

DurgaMa detail

 Fire and Harmony

 Fire and Harmony

A Her Party, Oil on Resin with Glass and Paint

Infinity

Inner tube Varient II





Let's See, Oil on Resin with Plastic, Tape, and Gauze

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Monumental Cocoon, Marble

Monumental Cocoon, Marble

Monumental Double Diver

Monumental Quan

Monumental Quan, detail

Moran

Moran II

Moran II, detail

New York City Slicker

Next Summer, Polished Stainless Steel

Olympus

Passages Through Relationships (Unique)

Relevé


The Goddess

The golden mean

The Message

The Midpoint

The Midpoint, detail

 Toasting To Your Health

Tree

Tree, Stainless Steel

Tree, Stainless Steel

Triumph

Yaima and the Ball

Yasemin

Yasemin, detail

 Madonna, Front

Aphrodite

Aspiration, Oil on Resin

Dress Rehearsal, Oil on Resin

Five Minutes Please, Oil on Resin

Hands Breaking in Toe Shoes, Oil on Resin

Madonna, rear

Magda, Bronze

Poseidon, Bronze

Taking and Giving, Bronze

The Lovers, Marble

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Artist of the day, May 1: Ellen Lupton, American graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator




Ellen Lupton (1963) is a graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within typography, Lupton decided to expand her love for design and took on the graphic design world. Lupton is the curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and is the director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Like so many other design legends that came of age in the era of “commercial art,” Lupton was not aware of design as a viable field of study before college. It wasn't until she began as a fine art student at Cooper Union in 1981 that she discovered the expressive potential of typography. The visual art of writing was an inspiration to a self-professed “art girl” who came from a family of English teachers. Realizing the potential for an expanded critical discourse in graphic design provoked a shift in her ambitions.

In the mid-1980s Lupton founded the Design Writing Research lab with partner J. Abbott Miller as a so-called “after school” supplement to their early working lives. “We were young and had theories,” she says, “so we created DWR as a thing where we could take on work with clients and do artsy-fartsy stuff for the real world.” The fledgling studio provided the ideal climate for the kind of seamless integration between theory and practice that would characterize the scope of Lupton's career. Ideas from the Design Writing Research studio and early curatorial explorations at the Lubalin Center formed the basis for Design/Writing/Research: Writing on Graphic Design, co-authored and designed by Lupton and Miller in 1996. The Lupton/Miller partnership has yielded many accomplishments, both professionally and personally, from the Chrysler Design Award in 1993 to the ultimate collaboration: their two children, Ruby and Jay.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Ellen Lupton. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.