Irving Tepper

Born 1947 in Missouri

Lives in New York

(http://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu/exhibitions/tepper/ 5-2-08)

Irvin Tepper: When Cups Speak

Life with the Cup: A 25-Year Survey

August 9, 2003 – December 19, 2003

The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art is proud to host Irvin Tepper: When Cups Speak/Life With the Cup: A 25-Year Survey beginning this summer. The traveling exhibition, organized by the Thompson Art Gallery at San Jose State University in California, features what Director Jo Farb Hernandez refers to as Irvin Tepper’s “exploration of the physical and conceptual idea of the coffee cup.”

Born in 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, Tepper is currently a professor in the Fine Arts and Industrial Design departments at the Pratt Institute in New York. Tepper earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1969 and his master of fine arts degree in 1971 at the University of Washington in Seattle. As well as his more than 30 years working and teaching in ceramics, Tepper has explored several other media. Drawn from public and private collections, the exhibition will include Tepper’s ceramic and bronze cups, drawings and photographs of cups, as well as stories about cups. This 25-year overview examines Tepper’s fascination with the cup as it personally connects with each of us.

Tepper’s recent solo exhibitions include shows at Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Car Museum in Houston, as well as galleries in Michigan, Missouri, and several California venues. In recent years he has participated in group exhibitions at Franklin Parrish Gallery in New York City, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Mint Museum of Craft+Design in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the nationally traveling "Color and Fire - Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000," organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. Tepper's work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among many others.

A 134-page book accompanies the exhibition. This comprehensive look at "life with the cup" includes an interview with Tepper and also essays by noted art historians, curators, and critics. The book will be available for sale in the Museum or to order, visit our publications information.

Irvin Tepper: When Cups Speak/Life With the Cup: A 25-Year Survey is organized and circulated by The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery in the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University. The exhibition was made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Tepper Family Foundation, with additional funds provided by a California State University Research Funds Award; Kenneth A. Cowin; Dan and Jeanne Fauci; and Dotty and Arnold Tepper.

(http://www.artnet.com 5-2-08)

Born: St. Louis, Missouri

1969 B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri

1971 Missouri

Selected Exhibitions

2004 “Eat, Drink,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY

2004 From Rosanjin to Voulkos, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY

2004 Eat, Drink, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY

2002 “Legacy of Innovation--A Tribute to Ken Ferguson,” Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2002 “9/11--Pratt Artists Respond,” Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2002 “When Cups Speak: Life With the Cup, a 25-Year Survey,” Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

2001 This is New York Gallery, New York, NY

2001 “I Love New York Benefit,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

2001 “Recent Acquisitions,” Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2000 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

2000 “Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection,” Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC

2000 “Color and Fire--Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2000 “Two Masters of Modern Ceramics--Irv Tepper and Jun Kaneko,” Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA

2000 “Fotofest2000,” Art Car Museum, Houston, TX

1999 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

1999 “The Art of Craft,” Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

1999 “Tears for the 20th Century,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.

1998 “Vehicles of Havana,” Art Car Museum, Houston, TX (Traveled to Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH)

1997 Sybarus Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1997 “Forms and Transformations, Current Expressions in Ceramic Art and Industry,” New York, NY

1996 “Cups II,” Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

1996 “Drawings and Objects,” Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

1995 “Keepers of the Flame,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

1993 “Legacy: Five Perspectives,” University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1993 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1992 California State University, Hayward, CA

1992 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1991 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1990 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1989 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1988 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1988 “Recent Ceramics, Sculpture and Drawing,” San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA

1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

1987 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1987 Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX

1985 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1984 Vanderwoude/Tananbaum, New York, NY

1983 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1983 Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

1983 “Irvin Tepper: Cups, Drawings, Stories,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; traveled: University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, California State University, San Diego, CA (catalog)

1982 “Ursula Schneider--Irv Tepper,” Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland (two-person exhibition)

1978 - 1980 St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

1979 SITE, San Francisco, CA

1975 And/Or, Seattle, WA

1974 And/Or, Seattle, WA

1973 de Saisset Museum, University of California at Santa Clara

1972 James Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA

1971 James Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA

Literature

1996 Cover photo for Art Life vol. 16, no.4, Issue no. 169

1995 Peter von Ziegesar.,“Report from Kansas City,” Art In America, June 1995

1994 Patricia Failing, “Northwest Clay Symposium,” American Craft, February

1989 Gay Morris, “Review of Exhibitions,” Art in America, May 1989

1984 Paul Schimmel, “Conversation Pieces: The Cups of Irvin Tepper,” American Ceramics 3/2, 1984, cover and article

1981 Erica Klien, “Porcelain, Films Speak for Irv Tepper,” The Arts (St. Louis), January 1981

1980 Mary King, “Feeling Fantasy in Currents Show,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, Nov. 23, 1980

1979 Prudence Juris, “Fun and Games at the Institute,” Artweek 3, Aug. 12, 1979

1979 G.P. Skratz, “Together Again for the First Time,” Artweek 10, Sept. 22, 1979

1979 “Spanner/NYC (New York,” “Green” Issue, 1979

1979 Christopher Brown, “Looking Through Drawing: Irv Tepper, SITE,” Artweek, Oct. 13, 1979

1978 Roger Green, “Art exhibit is Contemporary Reaction,” New Orleans State Item, Mar. 25, 1978

1977 Carl Loeffer, “Artist as Context,” Data (Milano), July/Sept. 1977

1977 Carter Ratcliff, “Report from San Francisco,” Art in America, May/June 1977

1975 Tom Kent, “Second Generations,” Artweek, Mar. 29, 1975

1973 Kathryn Keller, “Irvin Tepper--Documents and Video Tapes,” Artweek. Vol. 4, No. 40 (November 24, 1973), p.13.