Sculptor Carol Feuerman and her "wet" hyperrealism
There are a lot of hyperrealist artists these days. But sculptors working in this direction are less common. American Carol A. Feuerman (Carole A. Feuerman), without any doubt, is one of his most outstanding masters. Her sculptures are so similar to real people that sometimes they can only be distinguished by touching. At the same time, Carol can create a miracle from a variety of materials ranging from polymer resins to bronze and stone.
Carol Feuerman was born in 1945 in New York. She planned to devote herself to fine art from school, although she never dreamed of becoming a sculptor. Carol was attracted to the work of an illustrator and she graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in this specialty.
Feyerman's career was successful from the very beginning. Her talent was quickly noticed and the girl was hired in The New York Times. At the same time as working for the venerable publication, Carol took orders. Among her clients were Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones, for whom she created album covers.
Feyerman tried herself in sculpture in the early 70s. And already in 1975 she created the composition "Nose at the grindstone" for the cover of the National Lampoon edition. It was an incredibly successful debut, after which the Feyerman illustrator was almost forgotten. Everyone was interested in her sculptures, which struck the imagination with their realism.
In the early 80s, Carol Feuerman created sculptural compositions for several reputable brands. Among her particularly successful works, it is worth noting the Absolut Vodka project. A Swedish alcohol manufacturer has hired a sculptor to create advertising masterpieces for the US market, since alcohol advertising is prohibited by law in the brand's homeland.
Feyerman sculptures advertising vodka were fixed on glass platforms mounted on trucks. Cars moved through the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, causing the admiration of passers-by. After that, there were many other interesting orders that Carol always performed brilliantly.
Now Carol Feuerman and her sculptures are known all over the world. Her exhibitions were held at the Valley Center for Contemporary Art, at the Guggenheim Museum in In New York, at the Heckscher Museum on Long Island and even in The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Carol has her own special style — she often sculpts "wet" sculptures, that is, creates the illusion of splashes or drops.
The sculptor creates his masterpieces for the street and premises. For enclosed spaces, Feyerman uses polymer resin as a material. By giving it a shape, Carol adds realism to the work with the help of paints. Street sculptures are made of bronze or stone. They can also be painted, although they are impressive without it.
Feuerman first makes his sculptures in plaster, and then covers them with resin, paints them with oil and glazes them. It takes from 6 months to several years to create one sculpture, and the layers of paint number in the hundreds.
Carol also works with rubber, which she then paints with oil, but her list of favorite materials also includes bronze and stone. She has developed a technique that she herself calls "drawing with fire", in which she pours and sprays up to five different incandescent metals with a temperature of more than 1000 degrees.
Transparent drops of water became the author's Feyerman technique, giving the already "living" sculptures a special realism.
The name Carol Feuerman is included in "An American Odyssey 1945-1980", that is, Feuerman is recognized as an outstanding American artist of the postwar era. Her works have been exhibited in the most famous museums in the world, for example, the Madrid Prado and the St. Petersburg Hermitage. For many years, she has successfully managed a company created also with her own hands — Feuerman Studios Inc, where she not only creates and presents her works, but also allocates a place under the sun, next to herself, and for other artists.