Argentina
lives and works in New York
Dolores Furtado (b.1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in New York. She investigates relations between the body, form, and history through a physical and spiritual process of direct engagement with matter. She explores the power of transformation of matter and its correlation with the capacity of regeneration and rebirth. She is interested in the relationship between matter and spirit, and in the alchemy behind the experimentation with materials.
In a wide range of formats and sizes, her sculptures highlight process, through tactile marks, object prints, mold seams, decolorations, drips, and cracks.
Every step of the process adds a new layer of information, and the final piece is not a pre-designed object, but only the outcome of a series of actions with an open end. She thinks of her sculptures as the documentation of process and action.
Through her work, Furtado explores our physical and spiritual connection to the natural world.
Her latest shows include: “Ocultismo y barro”, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn (2022); “Greater New York 2021”, Moma PS1, Queens (2021); “Ceramics now”, Greenwich House Pottery; “Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, (2020); ”Supernatural”, Kingsborough College Museum, Brooklyn (2019); 4th AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts (2017); A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn (2017); Epsilon, abstracciones descentradas, MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (2016).
She completed the following residency programs: Urban Glass 2022 Visiting Artist and Designer Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Greenwich House Pottery Residency NYC, USA (2020); Oak Spring Garden Foundation AIR Program, Virginia, USA (2019); 2018 FSP/Jerome Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, USA (2018); Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Program, Bronx, USA (2017), among others.
