Vickie Vainionpää

Soft Body Dynamics 11

2018

Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three major artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s...

Painted bronze with stone base. Limited and signed edition number 9 of 398. Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three major artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style. Her career is highlighted by iconic figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery; the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Venice Biennale; and Palazzo Strozzi Palace in Florence, Italy, among others. Growing up in New York, Feuerman was deterred from being an artist. She attended Hofstra University, Temple University, and graduated from the school of Visual Arts in New York City to begin her career as an illustrator. During the early 1970s she went by the artist’s name Carole Jean, illustrating for The New York Times and creating album covers for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones. In 1981, Feuerman was chosen by a jury at the Heckscher Museum in Long Island where she exhibited. After this she was invited to participate in the ‘Learning through the Arts Program’ at the Guggenheim Museum. Feuerman received the Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award in 1981. In 1982 she received the Amelia Peabody Award for sculpture. In 2016, she received Best in Show Award for her sculpture ‘Mona Lisa’ by the Huan Tai Museum. The sculpture was acquired for their permanent collection. Feuerman has also been awarded the Medici Prize by the City of Florence, First Prize at the Beijing Biennale, and the Austrian Biennale, and in 2008 she received First Prize in the Olympic Fine Art exhibition in Beijing. The piece was acquired by the Olympic Museum. She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her artworks are owned by eighteen museums, as well as in the collections of the City of Peekskill, New York, the City of Sunnyvale California, President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Mikhail Gorbachev Art Foundation, Mr. Steven A. Cohen, Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, and the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection...

Untitled Floralscape, an original oil painting on canvas by William Verdult, is a piece for the true collector. The artist's genius reflects a fiery artistic approach that inspires u...

One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing. Because you cannot appreciate it on a computer screen, our gallery has a unique pol...

"Ending Light on the Lake" is a minimalist landscape painting depicting subtle shifts of color in a cloud covered sky. The clouds take on hues of blue, pink and grey with a softness that only comes with the setting sun. The still water reflects the beautiful sky. The overall peacefulness of the scene is enhanced by the soft palette of colors. This painting is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 31 x 49 inches. Ahzad Bogosian Ending Light on the Lake oil and acrylic on canvas 30h x 48w in 76.20h x 121.92w cm AZB108 Ahzad Bogosian SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 Landscapes, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Quiet Light, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago,IL 2004 Distant Light, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Sky, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002 Vista, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1998 Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN 1997 Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1996 Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Earth, Wind & Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017 Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2012 2012 Alumni Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO 2010 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Selections, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago 2008 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Palm Beach 3 Art Fair, West Palm Beach, Fl 2005 SOFA Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago, Butler Field, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 VISION 9, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Five Views of the Midwest, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO (traveling exhibition: Sikeston, MO; Cape Girardeau, MO; Louisiana, MO) 2002 Art of the 20th Century, Ann Nathan Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY 2002 Art Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002 The State We're In...Landscapes of the Heartland, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL 2001 Ever Green, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2000 Watercolor USA, 2000, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO Old/New, A.D. Brown Building, St. Louis, MO 1999 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA West Palm Beach Art Expo (Lisa Kurts Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL Power of Water – The Great Lakes Show, traveling exhibition 1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY In/Form V, St. Louis, MO 1997 Midwestern Landscapes...

Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images from the Tang Dynasty. In "Let Her Go", the foreground shows a modern female figure sitting upon the side of a boat which gives the impression she is wearing wings and about to take flight. Upon closer look, there are various scenes taking place around her in the water - warriors with knives drawn, a jeep in pursuit of some unseen enemy, a cauldron boiling over. Influence by the Renaissance Masters, Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Let Her Go oil on canvas 48h x 60w in 121.92h x 152.40w cm VWG011 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S. “When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening...