Artist

Irvin Tepper

born St. Louis, MO 1947
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Also known as
  • Irvin Tepper
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Irvin Tepper earned degrees in both ceramics and sculpture, and has worked with drawing, photography, and video art. The artist favors porcelain for his sculptures because of its fragility and translucency. Since 1975, Tepper has been interested in how teacups bear witness to many conversations. He shows them as cracked and fragile, worn out from the years spent listening to and absorbing a range of human emotions.

Works by this artist (1 item)

Clarice Smith, Big Race, 2001, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and Ryna Cohen and the Funger Foundation, Norma Lee and Morton Funger, 2003.3
Big Race
Date2001
oil on canvas
Not on view