The human body has always been at the core of Carole A. Feuerman’s artistic poetics. At the beginning of her career, in the late 1970s, her sculptures presented the body in fragments, yet charged with energy, vitality, and eroticism.
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Jackie Ferrara: “Had my name been Jack, I’d really be famous now”
Recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award In Memoriam Known for stacking lengths of wood into structures that resemble pyramids, stairways, and towers, Jackie Ferrara (1929–2025) imbued the sleek forms of Minimalism with an aura of ancient mystery.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Petah Coyne: Illuminating the Blind Spots
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Petah Coyne’s spacious studio is located in a tight-knit, working-class neighborhood in northern New Jersey, a community she loves.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Carving Routes Toward Liberation
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award With their architectural aura, their weaving between fluid and solid, supple and clenched, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s sculptural works stage convergences that unsettle while inducing awe. Her intimate juxtaposition of unlike substances triggers creative friction, sparking an alchemy that feels strategic as it fractures narrow categories.
Jun Kaneko: Between the Mark and Space
Recipient of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award “Whether I’m making a large or small object, I hope it will make sense to have that particular scale and form together, and that it will give off enough visual energy to shake the air around it.”
