Kathy Forer

I make sculpture out of clay and sometimes plaster, paper and wood. I am interested in how vision is modeled in sculpture, with landscape, interior and figure – from memory, observation and imagination – as subject.

My influences include television, cartooning, graphic arts, painting, body movement and architecture. Most-favorite artists include Ancients, Old Masters, primitives and Impressionists. I am attracted by the linear, painterly and architectural; point of view, perspective, level of detail, gesture, color. Figurative, landscape, genre. Structure and surface, content and form, the whole and its parts all work together to create an object.

A challenge of traditional modeled sculpture is "getting it to stand," an imperative that predicates much of what followed. Using relief, high and low, allows sculpture to be more like painting —surface on a relatively flat three-dimensional ground. Some of my reliefs are paint with clay, others drawing, some explore space.

My sculpture in the round negotiates the space around the object and the thing itself by using focus and perspective to bring the moving viewer into the work. I seek to go beyond the object's physical structure by extending the work invisibly into space us...

• The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
- 1990-92, Summer 1977
• The Sculpture Center School, 1981-82
- Foundry/teaching assistant in bronze casting
• The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer 1981
• The Art Students League of New York, 1977-81
• Sculpture study with Jos de Creeft, 1978
• Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, 1973-77
- Major in painting, sculpture and graphics BFA 82

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND COMMISSIONS
• Art Faces | Art Places, AFAP Artist of the Month, 1998
• Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, May 1993
• The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
- Prize for Overall Excellence and Distinction in Sculpture, 1990-91
• Dr. Sol Nichtern, Portrait Commission, New York, NY, 1985
• Professor Zevi Blum, Portrait Commission, Ithaca, NY, 1982
• The Art Students League Annual Student Concours
- Purchase Prize Option, 1978, 1981
• New York State Board of Regents Examination Award, 1973

PUBLICATIONS AND PROPOSALS
• The Jersey Journal, February 20, 2004
- Salt of the earth by Ahn Behrens
• The Two River Times, Friday, March 5, 2004
- Time Capsule of Contemporary Life
• Clay Times Magazine...

CURATED SHOWS
City Lives, curated by Michael Klein at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, Nov 24th, 2015 – Jan 16th, 2016

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
- New Jersey Emerging Artist Series, Sep 19th to Nov 2nd, 2008
Chamot Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
- Salt Of The Earth, Feb 15th to Mar 20th, 2004
The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NY
- One-Person Exhibition, Student Gallery, April 1992
Cornell University Student Gallery, Ithaca, NY
- One-Person Senior Thesis Exhibition, April 1977

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
- New Jersey Artists Emerged Series, November 2011
• Chamot Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
- End of year celebration Show, Dec 12th, 2003 to Jan 18th, 2004
• D E S I G N 360, Summer Exhibition, Savannah, GA, June 2003
• Operation Greenhouse, Brooklyn, NY
- Signs, Forms, Systems Converging: Life Emerging, December 1998
• BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
- Pier Show 6, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, May-June 1998
• 92nd Street Y, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Studio Tour, March 1998
- Open Studios in 11211, Brooklyn, NY, May 1997
• Maximum Capacity, art initiatives salon 95
• ACI Virtuosity: The Juried Exhibiti...