David Furman: The Artist is in the Details

For more than 40 years, artist David Furman has created diverse works in clay that express his ideas, experiences, and perceptions through irony, empathy, and humor. His repertoire is vast: miniature room vignettes and smallscale “contemporary ruins” and trompe l’oeil works imitating ceramic tools, paintbrush-filled coffee cans, tea cups with floating pencils and erasers, and chalkboards and bulletin boards. Furman’s more recent work is focused on composite-vegetable teapots and wooden-mannequin based scenarios that portray human emotion.