Naomi Teppich

My love for art and sculpture has evolved over many years. My father, an
illustrator and painter, incited my interest in the visual arts and nature.
Feminism of the late seventies including Lee Bontecou’s sculptures and Georgia
O’Keefe’s paintings captivated me. Today environmentalism has spurred me
into creating my current series of metal sculptures. I am enamored of cacti and
succulents that I have viewed in the Southwest in person and in photographs. I
like to place my large cacti sculpture in Northeastern parks and gardens to
emphasize how global warming has changed the type of plants that could grow
in unlikely regions. I use a MIG welder to weld stainless steel rods and tie in the
aluminum expanded metal with aluminum and copper wire. I add color to the
expanded metal.
My other current medium is ceramic sculpture. I build small and medium-sized
stoneware pieces. Plants, fungi, bark, shells, and fossils are among my
creations. I enjoy mimicking these natural forms and their textures. I fire them
in electric, gas and anagama wood-firing kilns depending on the aesthetics
required.
BIO
Naomi Teppich has had twenty-one solo exhibitions, eight of them in New York
City. She has had numerous group shows in many locations. Among her art
awards are two with the Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ and Beacon, NY, and
one emerging artist grant with the Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, MN. Her largescale ferro-cement sculptures are currently being displayed at The Erica and
David Boyd Sculpture Park, Leonia, NJ, Mt. Tremper Art Park, NY, Collaborative
Concepts, Mahopac, NY, and the ArtGarden, Narrowsburg, NY. Recently her
ceramic works were included in two juried international group shows: Earth
Reflections, Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY and Clay!, Cultural Center of
Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she received her BA from Brooklyn
College, where she was a fine arts major. Her welding skills were developed at
Pratt Institute, during her MFA period. Later in her career she studied ceramics
at Parsons School of Design in 1995, and she now also creates stoneware
sculpture. Teppich currently lives in Damascus, PA interspersed with cultural
visits to New York

phone: 570-224-6538
address: 545 Galilee Rd., Damascus, PA  18415
email: NaomiTeppich@gmail.com
website: www.naomiteppichsculpt.com