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Search results for: ford forlano

Ford/Forlano in Santa Fe

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Rachel Carren

Patina Gallery in Santa Fe has been featuring the work of Ford/Forlano this month in a special show called, “The Language of Color”.   While Ford/Forlano are long time exhibitors with Patina Gallery, this show dovetails with the city of Santa Fe’s overall focus on a “Summer of Color”.   From their earliest step-by-step color modulations as City Zen Cane to their current “painterly” applications of hue, Ford/Forlano’s distinctive use of color has always been one of the defining characteristics of their work.  The show is up for a few more days but Ford/Forlano’s work remains a staple of the extensive…

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Selection from the Collection: Ford/Forlano Figure

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Elise Winters

Steven Ford & David Forlano, Figure, 2003 wall sculpture with 2 brooches 13.25″h x 12.25″w x 2.25″d We all know the old phrase, “to raise the bar,” which first described high jump and pole vaulting competitions at track meets. A new definition can be witnessed each November at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) Craft Show when you visit the Steven Ford/David Forlano booth. Each time they exhibit, they seem to surpass some previous artistic limit. In 2003, for opening night, they arranged their booth as an exhibition gallery rather than a sales environment. Instead of displaying the expected, their…

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Ford/Forlano at 20

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Elise Winters

2008 marks the 20th year of collaboration between Steven Ford and David Forlano creating extraordinary polymer art jewelry. In celebration of this anniversary, they produced a beautiful 4-color timeline which they share when they show their work. They also redesigned their website to include “vintage work.” And in an email today, David wrote: Steve and I have a new video introducing fordforlano art jewelry on YOUTUBE. If you have 4 minutes to take a look, it is here: Ford/Forlano video Enjoy!

MIPCES Exhibition: Steven Ford

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Elise Winters

If you are a new visitor to Polymer Art Archive, you can find background about this event in the 2 posts, Past, Present Future and All About MIPCES. THREE OBJECTS from a group 14”, 9”, 6” in diameter For the MIPCES catalog, Steven Ford wrote: “With this group of sewn forms, I was trying to think of the clay in a new way. I transferred drawings to make ‘yardage’ of material, then cut it out, and assembled it with an ordinary sewing machine using a zig zag stitch. I wanted a pile of geometric forms that hold their own shape…

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MIPCES Exhibition: David Forlano

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Elise Winters

If you are a new visitor to Polymer Art Archive, you can find background about this event in the 2 posts, Past, Present Future and All About MIPCES. UNTITLED, polymer clay painting 8” x 11” For the MIPCES catalog in 1997, David Forlano, of Ford/Forlano, wrote: “This series of polymer clay paintings and objects is a returning to a process in painting and imagery I was working with seven years ago. These ideas are made fresh by working with polymer clay as opposed to the paint I used. I have found that the adding and subtracting of layers, a process…

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