Dolores Furtado 

Artist in Residence, Fall 2019

Dolores Furtado is a sculptor who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on matter, material, and formlessness.

“I’m interested in the process itself,” she said, “It’s constantly transforming, a bit in the way nature does - not in a defined way. It’s more about transforming the material.” 

Dolores spent much of her time at OSGF experimenting with paper products. While she uses recycled paper at home, being at OSGF gave her the opportunity to use different types of materials - including wood and grass, as well as flowers, fruits, and vegetables from the Biocultural Conservation Farm and gardens - to create a variety of papers and small sculptures.

Dolores said she found inspiration for her work in a variety of places: from the unique way Bunny Mellon’s use of frames to change the forms of plants in the greenhouse, to books on paper-making in the Oak Spring library, to the ever-changing autumn landscape.

You can learn more about Dolores at http://www.doloresfurtado.net/. To read a blogpost about OSGF’s fall 2019 Artists in Residence, click here.