SWIMMERS: Carole Feuerman

The book cover for Swimmers features the artwork titled Shower Portrait Diamond Dust Print, which is a black-and-gray silkscreen print of a woman wearing a bathing cap.
Artist Carole Feuerman stands with several paint brushes while wearing a blue apron and has a hand on her hip as she looks at the camera. Behind her is a sculpture of a woman.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a male diver in a swimsuit and gold swim cap sits outside in front of a lake at sunset. The man is posed in a handstand with his back arched and toes pointed.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman balanced on her knees and hands on top of a silver sphere. Her are eyes closed, her toes are pointed behind her, and she is wearing a black bathing suit.
In a hyperrealistic silkscreen print, a woman wears a yellow bathing cap and rests her cheek and arms on a red inner tube. Her eyes are closed and she appears against a solid purple background.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a nude woman, seen from the thighs up, sits outside a gray building. Her eyes are closed and her face tips toward the sky.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman from her navel up is mounted on a white wall. She wears a green swim cap and a pink bikini top with a white bow. Her eyes are closed and her face tips upward.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman lying across a reflective silver inner tube sits outside in a shallow pool with a lake in the background. The woman wears a zebra print swimsuit.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a woman wearing a bathing cap and bikini sits with her legs crossed and eyes closed. Her hands rest on her knees with palms turned upward.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a man doing a handstand appears in front of a blue sky. The man holds himself up by holding the ankles of another person who is also doing a handstand.
A mixed-media drawing shows wavy black lines gathered around the forms of two people embracing on the right and two people standing next to each other on the left.
The book cover for Swimmers features the artwork titled Shower Portrait Diamond Dust Print, which is a black-and-gray silkscreen print of a woman wearing a bathing cap.
Artist Carole Feuerman stands with several paint brushes while wearing a blue apron and has a hand on her hip as she looks at the camera. Behind her is a sculpture of a woman.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a male diver in a swimsuit and gold swim cap sits outside in front of a lake at sunset. The man is posed in a handstand with his back arched and toes pointed.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman balanced on her knees and hands on top of a silver sphere. Her are eyes closed, her toes are pointed behind her, and she is wearing a black bathing suit.
In a hyperrealistic silkscreen print, a woman wears a yellow bathing cap and rests her cheek and arms on a red inner tube. Her eyes are closed and she appears against a solid purple background.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a nude woman, seen from the thighs up, sits outside a gray building. Her eyes are closed and her face tips toward the sky.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman from her navel up is mounted on a white wall. She wears a green swim cap and a pink bikini top with a white bow. Her eyes are closed and her face tips upward.
A hyperrealistic sculpture of a woman lying across a reflective silver inner tube sits outside in a shallow pool with a lake in the background. The woman wears a zebra print swimsuit.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a woman wearing a bathing cap and bikini sits with her legs crossed and eyes closed. Her hands rest on her knees with palms turned upward.
A hyperrealistic bronze sculpture of a man doing a handstand appears in front of a blue sky. The man holds himself up by holding the ankles of another person who is also doing a handstand.
A mixed-media drawing shows wavy black lines gathered around the forms of two people embracing on the right and two people standing next to each other on the left.

SWIMMERS: Carole Feuerman

$75.00

FOREWORD BY: JOHN T. SPIKE
ESSAY BY: JOHN YAU

Hardcover
10 x 12 inches, 148 pages + 1 six-page gatefold
97 color plates
ISBN: 978-0-9888557-4-8

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Realist sculptor Carole A. Feuerman’s human-figure sculptures express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely personal activities of modern life. Her powers of observation and versatility find unique expression through various materials that include marble, bronze, vinyl, and painted resins, while she incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods in the creation of her works. Swimmers: Carole Feuerman is a gorgeous and shimmering glimpse at transitory, contemplative moments in time, often captured in a veil of clear resin that replicates tumbling water droplets.

In his astute and insightful essay, John Yau describes Feuerman’s exquisitely rendered figures as subjects “caught in a moment of transition that radiates an intense eroticism.” Her figures seem capable of thought, evoking an inward life that invites our speculation while revealing a mysterious chasm between the figures and the viewer that can never be plumbed. We cannot know their thoughts and perhaps that is exactly the point. Feuerman fuses the tactile nature of her sculpture with a visual verisimilitude that provides us a fleeting glimpse into private and isolated environments—women stepping out of the shower, in the rain, or swimming—that suggest a meditative bliss.

Feuerman museum retrospectives have included exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia; The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence, Italy; and the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, among others. Her work is featured in public, private, and corporate collections, including Grounds For Sculpture, Trenton, NJ; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; and art-st-urban, Lucerne, Switzerland. Her large-scale Olympic Swimmer was featured in the Olympic Fine Arts exhibition at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City.  He has published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, artists’ monographs, and art criticism. John T. Spike, a noted art historian, author, and lecturer, is a critic of contemporary art. In 2012, he was named the assistant director and chief curator of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia.