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Artists
Carole A. Feuerman ( b. 1945, New York) is an internationally acclaimed superrealist sculptor whose technically exacting, monumentally scaled figurative works have become touchstones in contemporary sculpture. Renowned for her swimmer figures—among them Innertube and The Golden Mean—Feuerman combines detailed surface finish with an architectural sense of presence, producing works that perform equally as intimate portraiture and as civic landmarks. Her practice encompasses indoor and outdoor installations, water-activated projects, and a recent series of mythological iconographies.
Feuerman began her professional career in the 1960s with drawing and paintings for The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper and the New York Times. In the 1970s she began a series of fragmented wall pieces. In the 1990s her work became larger-than-life, cast in resin and bronze. Her technical mastery—painstaking modeling, and finishing—serves a conceptual agenda: to render bodies that register as living presences while prompting reflection on visibility, resilience, and collective memory.
Her work has been exhibited at selected major international venues, including Park Avenue, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Palazzo Bonaparte and Palazzo Strozzi in Italy; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. They are in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums and owned by the city of Sunnyvale, CA and Peekskill, NY. Distinguished private collectors include: Steven A. Cohen, William L. Mack, Glenn Fuhrman, Alexandre Grendene, former President Bill Clinton, Andrea Bocelli, and Malcolm Forbes. Feuerman has lectured and given workshops at institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2011, she founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation to advance sculptural practice and public engagement with three-dimensional art. In 2025, her Foundation started the Feuerman Sculpture Park at the Medici Museum in Ohio.
Recognition for Feuerman’s contribution to contemporary art includes the International Sculpture Centers Lifetime Achievement Award (2026), the World of Peace Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (Athens), the EAWC’s -Goddess Artemis Lifetime Achievement Award, First Prize at the Huan Tai Hu Museum (Changzhou), Best in Show at the Beijing Biennale, the Amelia Peabody Award, and the Medici Award in Florence.
Selected Artist Statement
“My work pursues a productive tension between fidelity and metaphor. I aim to render the human body with uncompromising realism—wet skin, glistening water, poised musculature—so that viewers encounter an immediate, almost tactile intimacy that then opens onto larger questions of identity, endurance and public life. Water recurs as a formal and symbolic element: as mirror, veil and agent of transformation. In recent projects the body is treated as palimpsest—tattooed surfaces and applied ornament become narrative fields where private histories intersect with shared cultural memory. For me, the hyperreal is not illusion but revelation: a means to reveal interior life and social possibility through meticulous craft and sustained empathy”.
Murray Hochman was born in 1934 and raised on NYC’s Lower East Side. He has a BA in art history from New York University and an MFA from Alfred University in ceramic arts, although he quickly turned to
painting.
His first works were bought by Frederic Mueller of the Pace Gallery and other prominent curators and collectors, including Henry Geldzahler (then curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum), Sam Hunter, Robert Scull and Allan Stone. During the 1960s, he was included in group shows at the Pace and Tibor de Nagy galleries along with the Whitney Art Resources Center and the Lobo Gallery in Montreal.
Throughout the following decades, Hochman has painted and exhibited consistently, but largely under the radar of the mainstream art establishment. In 2000, he bought a farm in the Berkshires, where he has been working in relative isolation for the last 25 years.
It stimulated a period of intense creativity and new directions, including collage, paintings on scrap metal, and wall reliefs and sculpture made out of discarded plastic, his first foray into the third dimension since his graduate work in ceramics.
www.murrayhochman.com
Alexander Varvaridze is a visual artist (painter) with a distinctive approach to his art consisting of figurative shapes and colors. His portraits show him as an emotional painter rather than a realist, which gives him a lot of room for interpretation.
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Choi Young Wook (b.1964) is a Western style painter, known for his painting series, “Karma”. Choi has devoted fifteen years to capturing the beauty of a traditional Korean vessel: a moon jar.
“My paintings are images of memories and a medium of communication.”
-Choi Young Wook
Choi completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting at Hongik University in 1991, followed by the attainment of his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2000. He initiated his artistic career with solo exhibitions as early as 1992, marking the inception of a trajectory characterized by continual growth and development. Notably, his pieces have been acquired by esteemed institutions such as Bill Gates Foundation, Gianni Versace, Korean Air, the Philadelphia Museum, the National Modern Art Museum of Korea, Luxembourg Palace, SK Group, Lotte Group, and more.
Throughout the past decade, Choi has dedicated himself to refining his expertise in the creation of moon jars, establishing them as his signature way of expression. During his quest to find his personal style and way of expression, he encountered a Joseon-era moon jar in a museum during his trip to Europe and the US. It was then this finding led him to research, collect, and continuously paint to perfect his skills.
Today, Choi seamlessly intertwines East Asian tradition with the expressive ethos of Western modern painting, utilizing his technique and style as a conduit for this fusion. Through his artistry, the historic Joseon moon jar breathes again.
