Judy and Kurt Feuerherm
January 21st – February 14th, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 23rd, 5-7 pm
Judy Feuerherm’s career spans 40 years of diverse experience including painting conservation, art gallery and real estate development partnerships, journalist and editor, corporate leadership and training and coaching. Judy has always maintained a painting studio where she has explored her interests in abstracting aerial land formations and her love of profuse flower arrangements whether in her garden, in vases throughout her house or on canvas.
Judy has been in several shows in the Rochester area. She has a bachelor’s degree in fine art and a master’s degree in journalism.
Kurt Feuerherm’s art focuses on the abstraction of nature-related subjects. His landscape paintings and collages are influenced by his lifelong curiosity about nature and his exposure to varied geographic areas of the world. His ceramic creatures – birds, snakes, dogs, and anteaters – reveal his irrepressible sense of humor and his fascination for animals and their behavior.
Since his early college days, Kurt has traveled extensively in the US, Mexico, the Caribbean islands, and Europe. From that travel and his close observation of the natural world, he has produced a body of work that bridges media, techniques, and forms, just as it reflects the images and nuances of many topographies and cultures.
After his retirement as a professor at Empire State College, State University of New York, Kurt Feuerherm lived and taught in Florence, Italy, and traveled throughout Tuscany. He currently resides in Rochester, New York.
Kurt’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
His paintings have been selected for juried exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, and the Art Institute of Chicago; his one-man exhibits throughout the US have included galleries in Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Buffalo, and Wellfleet.
Kurt Feuerherm’s educational background includes Post-Graduate Fellowships at Yale University studying with Josef Albers, Stuart Davis, Louis Kahn, and Naum Gabo; an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Arts; and a B.F.A. from the University of Buffalo.
“My assemblages are inspired by the humor in bird behavior. The artists I admire include Joan Miro, Saul Steinberg, Ronald Searle, Wilhelm Busch and Joseph Herriman What is better in life than a good laugh!” – Kurt Feuerherm
“My acrylic/collages are inspired by the beauty of color, shape and form in the floral world.” – Judy Feuerherm
