“This book dives deep into my experience. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds through balance, perseverance, and independence on my journey to fulfilling my true calling. Art has always been my saving grace” –Carole Feuerman.

Feuerman's 'My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy' depicts the highs and lows of her life. It depicts her struggle to survive and achieve success through balance, perseverance, and independence on her journey to fulfilling her true caring.  Her thought-provoking stories stimulate the readers to overcome their fears and live a satisfying life. Throughout her life, art has always been her saving grace.

Whether it be finding new work, financial uncertainty, or contemplating failure, fear has a special place in our emotional life. By compulsion, our minds are designed to let fear in. Without it, we’d never survive. But how to keep suspicion away from restricting our ability to fulfill our goals?  Carole describes it all in her autobiography.

Conquering fear is about wisdom, self-awareness, and understanding our inner strengths, often in the face of overwhelming odds in life. We can also practice and cultivate our winning personality traits, and thankfully, everything gets easier over time.

Feuerman’s book intends to educate the readers about surviving the odds in life. Her thought-provoking stories can stimulate the readers to overcome their fears and live a happy and satisfying life.

"Through my sculptures I convey my feelings about life and art. It is far easier for me to express my emotions through sculpture than through words. I portray the inner life of each sculpture I create to capture the passion and sensuality of my subjects. In this way, my work speaks to the viewer, evoking both an emotional and an intellectual response. My early hyper-realistic sculptures invite the audience to contemplate the intriguing dichotomy of realty in life and art. While my current work in metal is inspired by the idealized forms of ancient civilizations, my trompe-l'oeil hyperrealist figures are portrayed as reality. Extensive detailing and painting make each figure come to life. In contrast, the classical subjects of my work in metal are realized through a technique I developed for dripping and pouring molten materials. Throughout my artistic career, my style has undergone many transformations, but my passion for art and my love of creating art has endured"

Feuerman is acknowledged, alongside Duane Hanson and John D'Andrea, as one of the three major American hyperrealist sculptors that started the movement in the 1970s. Feuerman’s career spans over five decades and four continents. Through her sculptures, she creates visual manifestations of the stories she wants to tell, of strength, survival, and balance. She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Columbia University, and Grounds for Sculpture. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Feuerman's selected awards include Best in Show at the Third International Beijing Art Biennale, CN, the 2001 Lorenzo De Magnifico Award for the Biennale Internazionale: Dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy, The Prize of Honor in 2002 for the Ausstellungszentrum Heft in Huttenberg, Austria, and the Medici Prize awarded by the City of Florence. Her work was included in An American Odyssey 1945-1980 with the most prominent artists of the American Post-WWII era. A comprehensive one-person show in 2005 was held at the QCC Art Museum/CUNY titled Resin to Bronze Topographies. It was followed by the installation of her work at the Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey. Feuerman has had fifteen solo museum retrospectives throughout the world. You can see her work in museums, as well as private and public collections worldwide. She is married with 3 children and 4 grandchildren. She lives and works in New York City.

There are five monographs written about her work. Her first swimmer sculpture, “Catalina” is included in A History of Western Art, published by Harry N. Abrams, and written by Anthony Mason and John T. Spike. Her latest book is her autobiography. Grab your copies now! 'My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy'.

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Essay's included: Strange Devices and Unintentional Vices.

Interview's included: Janine Antoni, Rina Banerjee, Matthew Barney, Lowry Burgess, Lenka Clayton, Lewis Colburn, Young Joon Kwak, Athena Lynch, Katie Paterson, Charles Ray, Jon Rubin, Arcangelo Sassolino, Shoplifter, Simon Starling, and Julianne Swartz.

Reviews Included: Matthew Barney's Redoubt, Hito Steyerl's Drill, and Being Present in the Space of Video - Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995

Soft Cover Book.
ISBN: 978-0-578-87180-6
1st edition - 250 copies

For nearly forty years, John Van Alstine has created abstract sculptures forged from steel and stone. In John Van Alstine: Sculpture 1971–2018, three notable essayists explore the sculptor’s abstract landscapes that reveal the complex synergy between natural forces and man-made elements. The artist weaves into his works elements of mythology, celestial navigation, implements, human figures, movement, urban forms, and found objects, while using motion, balance, and inertia to incor-porate the eternal forces of gravity, tension, and erosion.

Van Alstine’s works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are found in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, and the Phillips Collection, to name but a few. His works are also found in numerous public and private collections. The Artist Book Foundation is gratified to announce the publication of this lavishly illustrated monograph on an esteemed and prolific contemporary artist.

Howard N. Fox is a former senior curatorial fellow of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and former curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Tom Moran is chief curator and artistic director at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. A sculptor in his own right, he has lectured on public art around the country. He has taught at Rutgers University as well as at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Tim Kane is a journalist, independent curator, and art critic who has authored numerous articles and art reviews on contemporary artists.

Read Sculpture Magazine's book review from September 2020, to find out why "A book like this raises larger questions about issues in sculpture today."

FOREWORD AND ESSAY BY: HOWARD FOX
CONTRIBUTIONS BY: TOM MORAN, TIM KANE, AND JOHN VAN ALSTINE
Hardcover
11 x 11½ inches 280 pages
226 color, plus 5 black and white
ISBN 978-0-9962007-7-6

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

In conjunction, Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era. Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. This resource covers all aspects of the public art process and includes recent trends in the field. Get the answers to all of your questions with painter, sculptor, public artist and author Lynn Basa.

FROM AMAZON.COM: First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators provide in-the-trenches advice and insight, while a chapter on public art law, written by Barbara T. Hoffman, the country's leading public art law attorney, answers questions about this complex area.

Packed with details on working with contracts, conflict, controversy, communities, committees, and more, The Artist's Guide to Public Art, Second Edition, shows artists how to cut through the red tape and win commissions that are rewarding both financially and artistically. This new edition discusses recent trends in the field, such as: how the political climate affects public art, the types of projects that receive funding, where that funding comes from, how the digital age impacts public art, how to compete with the increase of architecturally trained artists, and more.

Written by an artist, for artists, this guide is packed with everything readers need to know:

• Finding commissions
• Submitting applications
• Negotiating contracts
• Budgeting for projects
• Navigating copyright law
• Working with fabricators
• And much more

From start to finish, Lynn Basa covers all the steps of the process. With The Artist's Guide to Public Art, Second Edition, even readers without prior experience will be more than ready to confidently pursue their own public art projects.

A Sculpture Reader: The first of these books published by ISC Press is a compilation of articles on sculptors that first appeared in Sculpture over the past two decades. This book serves as a tool for educators, students and those interested in contemporary sculpture. It includes over 40 articles on a selection of international artists including Beverly Semmes, Tom Otterness, Annette Messager, Stephan Balkenhol, and Richard Long. With an introduction by Karen Wilkin. Edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer Released: June 2006

Artists Reclaim the Commons: Artists Reclaim the Commons New Works / New Territories / New Publics, edited by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, Managing Editor and Editor of Sculpture magazine, explores public art initiated and developed by artists, curators, and art organizations rather than government agencies or private corporations.

Conversations on Sculpture: A unique collection of interviews with contemporary sculptors drawn from the 25-year history of Sculpture magazine, Conversations on Sculpture offers a valuable overview of three-dimensional art at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

Landscapes for Art: The International Sculpture Center published "Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks," under the ISC Press imprint, in collaboration with the University of Washington Press in September 2008.  "Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks" surveys a wide range of sculpture parks and gardens in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Latvia, Sweden, and Finland (among others) that focus on contemporary art—from well-established, museum-type institutions to small-scale, non-collecting, experimental programs. Also includes interviews with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and Alfio Bonanno.

The New Earthwork: For more than 40 years, sculptors have been at the forefront of environmental and ecological/social innovation, making works that treat the earth as creative partner rather than resource and raw material. The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency edited by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, Managing Editor and Editor of Sculpture magazine, explores new approaches to sculpture and its impact on the environment.