Gallery Talk with Irvin Tepper
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Evidence of Phantoms Made Real
Between Thoughts
New Drawings, Sculpture and Video by Irvin Tepper
In a new series of large-scale drawings, Mr. Tepper uses techniques hybridized from both traditional drawing and digital tools to manipulate light and form with precise detail.
Beginning with common materials, Mr. Tepper has created porcelain pieces evoking motion and life in its most elemental state.
Irvin Tepper has had retrospective exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, The Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. The Newport Harbor Art Museum, and the University Art Museum, Berkeley. His work is in the permanent collections of these institutions, as well as The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Smithsonian Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Arkansas Art Center, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Los Angeles County of Museum of Art, and more than a dozen more.
Tepper’s work has been shown in over 100 group exhibitions internationally since 1969. His work in slip casting has been the subject of a graduate thesis at The Royal College of Art, London and he has used his slip casting techniques to make the forms that he alters to create his sculpture since 1969. There are over twenty articles and reviews, in addition to ten catalouges and books, devoted to the critical discussion of his art.
“My own work has always been experimental, using sculpture, ceramic, drawing, photography, video/performance, printmaking, and digital drawing to probe media specific parameters and to investigate the tensions between narrative and form.”
Irvin Tepper