David weinrib of pratt institute
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Interviewee: David Weinrib
Interviewer: Mary Emma Harris
Interview Date: June 22
Interview Location: New York City
BMC Role and Dates: Guest faculty, summer; Resident ceramist, , summer; Faculty, , summer
Profession: Sculptor, mixed media artist, ceramist
Topics: Ceramic work at BMC – “flowering” of ceramics in US in s – Peter Voulkos – Poteat House tiles – Black Mountain lifestyle – Robert Orr – Daniel Rhodes – Karnes and Weinrib pottery for BMC dining hall – Warren Mackenzie – addition to BMC potshop by Jack Rice – construction of original potshop by Robert Turner – Charles Olson and BMC politics – apartment in Studies Building – Southern Highland Handicraft Guild – student potters – Pottery Seminar – Shoji Hamada – Soetsu Yanagi – Marguerite Wildenhain – Bernard Leach – Karen Karnes – Charles Olson – Wesley Huss – Gate Hill Cooperative community (“The Land”) – Paul Williams – The Church and the Intermedia Foundation – BMC and the Beat Generation – M.C. Richards – spontaneous performance at BMC – teachers as professional artists
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David Weinrib (–)
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David Weinrib
American sculptor
David Weinrib (–) was an American artist most renowned for sculpture and ceramicart.[1]
Biography
[edit]In , with his wife Karen Karnes, Weinrib was a resident potter during the first Crafts Institute at Black Mountain College. Lasting October 15–29, , the workshop also included instruction by Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Dr. Soetsu Yanagi and Marguerite Wildenhain. At this time, Weinrib began experimenting in his practice of art production, creating tiles, "slab" pottery, and sculpted pots.[2]
In the summer of , Weinrib and Karnes led the school's second Craft Institute along with Warren MacKenzie, Daniel Rhodes, Peter Voulkos. In fall , Weinrib and Karnes would leave Black Mountain College and relocate to Stony Point, New York to begin working with M. C. Richards, David Tudor, and John Cage at Gate Hill Cooperative.[3]
Weinrib is known for working with diverse media. In the s, Weinrib became prominent creating abstract sculptures to be mounted or hung during exhibition in a series of shows at the Howard Wise Gallery. In , Weinrib participated in the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show curated by critic Irving Sandler at New York University, which also featured the work of sculptors Ronal