When Women Support Each Other, Incredible Things Happen
Ariela Wertheimer & Carole A. Feuerman; A Joint Exhibition

When Women Support Each Other, Incredible Things Happen is a joint exhibition of works by Ariela Wertheimer and Carole A. Feuerman.

Two women meet. Artists, different from each other like East and West.
They decided to join strengths; they decided to exhibit together.
And when women decide to go on a journey, no army of men can stop them.
Each one and her own world.
Each one and her own artwork.
But they are strong and creative women.
Ariela is exhibiting boxes of light that incorporate illumination, drawing and photographs of almost abstract art.
Carole is exhibiting hyperreal statues.
This is what it’s like when women support each other – wonderful things happen.
And the mix between them has created this wonderful exhibition, showcased in Manhattan, May 2018.

– Aharon Farkash
The Farkash Gallery

 

“I’m an artist, a mother, a wife, a friend, a family woman and a person who does and creates…Every piece of me is connected to more and more pieces. Which creates circles…and a piece of me is a friend of Carole’s.

Carole and I share the same love. Of art, of women, of people. Carole is realistic, within every limb there is creativity. I see and create the abstract, she is the body and I am the soul. She’s hair and a wrinkle and I’m fear and power. Female empowerment, in my opinion, is to engage in self-realization and what to say and express while dealing with personal, social, and occupational challenges unique to women.

In my work, I speak of the realization of freedom of choice and responsibility, the sense of meaning in action, the sense of inner freedom that activates a rhythm which creates and initiates, the power and influence we have on the results in our lives and the belief in our ability The first time that I saw Carole’s works of art was in a gallery in Sardinia and it laid an imprint on me, and it was the purity of simplicity and beauty which struck me.

I saw her creations again and again throughout Europe and America. Our meeting really happened at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Carole hugged me – like women do and intend to, and the embrace was warm and real…she suggested that we exhibit together. Here and now in New York, together under one roof. It’s an honor, and for that, thank you.”

-Ariela Wertheimer

About Ariela Wertheimer
Ariela Wertheimer is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Israel in 1957.

“When I came to live in Tel Aviv three years ago,” Wertheimer writes, “the city struck me with its creativity, pace and pluralism which combines Tel Aviv’s past with a kicking updated present. Between serenity and a storm, amongst the bustling streets and quiet hidden back alleys, I discovered a new beautiful world. I was creatively paralyzed and forsook my brushes. Since I didn’t know Tel Aviv, I wandered in the city as a treasure hunter.”Among her many wanderings, Wertheimer came upon the Jaffa Port, and there, the stories of the first immigrants surfaced before her. The fragrances of the oranges, noise and bustle and the people who built the country were revealed in abandoned, ruined buildings, as well as renewed structures. There, she found strength and power in iron, and saw how nature could leave its imprint over time. The concept of “foundations” gave way to a whole new meaning. “The camera immortalized the sights, and thus, in the iron, people were born, creativity was awakened and the brush was brought back to my life. Every person and their story. Each person and their own small or large prison of the past and present pain which they carry with them.”

Wertheimer explains, “I felt the need to provide a platform and specifically a platform for our vulnerability – because that is where we have room to grow and the vulnerability becomes a strengthening and building aspect of our foundations. We, as human beings have the right and reason to decide how to deal with obstacles. Will we develop and grow or stay in the same place? And the importance of understanding that we have the power within us to allow ourselves to make a change in our lives. In one of my encounters with a woman whose image I painted in a box of light, she said to me: ‘I’m not as strong as you made me!’ I answered, ‘You’re a strong and powerful woman, but these things have a price. They lay on our shoulders with all the weight of life.'”

 

About Carole A. Feuerman
Carole A. Feuerman is recognized as a pioneering figure in the world of hyperrealist sculpture. Together with [Duane] Hanson and [John] De Andrea, Feuerman is one of the three artists that started the Hyperrealism movement in the late seventies by making sculptures portraying their models in a life-like manner. Dubbed ‘the reigning doyenne of super-realism’ by art historian John T. Spike, Feuerman has solidified her place in art history.

Feuerman’s prolific career spans over four decades and four continents. Through her sculptures, she creates visual manifestations of the stories she wants to tell; of strength, survival, balance. Feuerman has produced a rich body of work in the studio and the public realm. By combining conventional sculptural materials of steel, bronze, and resin, with more unconventional media like water, sound, and video, she creates hybrid works of intricate energy and psychology.

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. She continues her focus on public outdoor sculptures, working primarily in bronze.

-bio from carolefeuerman.com, abridged.

For more information about the show, please contact arielawertheimer@gmail.com or call +972-546-868-687 (International number).


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