Carole Feuerman creates figurative sculpture, including monumental swimmers and divers in public settings. Her studio documents work in bronze, resin and other media at several scales.
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Representative artist / studio imageImage: artgallery.qcc.cuny.edu ↗Source: QCC Art Gallery / CUNY. Photographer not identified. (as credited at source)
At a glance
Practice
sculpture, public sculpture
Based in
New York, New York, United States
Profile
individual
Project participation
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Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
Practice-level material range and figurative motifs.
An image of stillness can have material variety
Feuerman’s biography describes a practice centered on figurative sculpture, with swimmers and divers recurring at both intimate and monumental scales. It lists several media, including bronze, resin and stainless steel. This range makes the selection of a particular version important when translating a recognizable image into a site brief. A commissioner can begin with the desired emotional and spatial encounter, then establish which material, surface and scale express it under the actual viewing conditions, rather than treating all examples of a motif as technically interchangeable.
Which material, surface and scale serve the intended encounter under the proposed site’s actual viewing conditions?
Big Art Partners planning prompt
Sunnyvale 2014 precedent; Poseidon creation 2024 and installation 2025.
Separate an object date from its installation
The studio’s public-art page records The Double Diver in Sunnyvale in 2014 and identifies Monumental Poseidon as a work made in 2024 and installed at the Medici Museum sculpture park in 2025. These are distinct objects and distinct date relationships. For a public-art planning file, the distinction helps prevent a recent installation from becoming an assumed creation date. It also suggests tracking the artwork, its location and its installation event separately when assembling precedent images or considering how an existing sculpture might relate to a site.
Does the project record distinguish the sculpture’s creation date from the date and conditions of its installation?
Big Art Partners planning prompt
2012 work; City of Peekskill acquisition reported by artist.
A diver becomes a civic landmark
Feuerman’s account of The Golden Mean identifies a 2012 bronze with gold leaf that was purchased by the City of Peekskill. The work isolates a diver in an extended moment of balance, translating a brief action into a lasting sculptural presence. For a planning discussion, this raises a useful relationship between the readable silhouette and its particular surface treatment. A site study can test how the figure is recognized from different approaches while allowing the closer view needed to understand the finish.
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