Helaine Blumenfeld was born on 1942 and is an American sculptor particularly known for her large-scale public sculptures.
12 Facts About Helaine Blumenfeld
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Helaine Blumenfeld creates works primarily in marble and bronze but in granite and other materials.
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Helaine Blumenfeld was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up in Jamaica Estates in the Borough of Queens.
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Helaine Blumenfeld's mother, a daughter of Russian emigres, was a poet and painter.
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Helaine Blumenfeld received her BA and MA from the University of Michigan and then went on to study for her PhD in political philosophy at Columbia University.
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Helaine Blumenfeld held her first solo exhibition, a group of polished bronzes, in 1966 at the Palais Palffy in Vienna.
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Helaine Blumenfeld had met her husband Yorick in a New York bookshop while she was researching her PhD.
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The Blumenfelds moved permanently to Europe in the late 1960s, eventually settling in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester in 1970 where Helaine has her UK studio.
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Helaine Blumenfeld had originally gone there to do bronze casting, but Alicia Penalba, another sculptor working in Pietrasanta, encouraged her to try sculpting in marble and introduced her to master carver Sem Ghelardini.
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Helaine Blumenfeld had come to the town to supervise two large-scale sculptures that Ghelardini was carving for him.
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The largest solo exhibition to date of the work of Helaine Blumenfeld was presented at Canary Wharf, London, from 16 March to 18 September 2020.
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Helaine Blumenfeld was elected a fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2000 and from 2004 to 2009 served as the society's vice-president.