PAST WORKS | Carole Feuerman The Golden Mean
September 6, 2014
Carole Feuerman’s sculptures are like minutes from a slice of life, frozen for pause and contemplation. And unlike looking at real people you get the chance for an up-close, unblinking gaze.
Feuerman says that her “work inspires the viewer to look closely at what stands before them.” She wants the viewer to “complete the story, to reflect and feel touched”. She explores universal feelings and emotions that are captured in a single, fragmented moment of time. Carole Feuerman’s sculptures are just too believable and she doesn’t forget a single detail. Casting figures from live models in her studio, she then adorns them with every attribute of life-likeness, applying tiny eyelashes, wisps of hair and painting the most convincing skin tones, freckles and veins.
Because of its faithfulness to reality, her life-size and realistic sculptures are uncanny in that they are simultaneously familiar in their lifelike appearance and yet strange as static works of art.
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