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
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…
Ford/Forlano at 20
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: David Forlano
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…
MIPCES Exhibition: Steven Ford
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…