Steven Weinberg

American artist Steven Weinberg (1954– ) studied ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, earning his BFA in 1976 before pursuing graduate work in glass under Dale Chihuly at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Weinberg established a studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, after receiving his MFA from RISD in 1979. He developed innovative casting techniques and is known for his sculptural glass forms that play with space, geometry, and modularity.

Works

Familius Domus #791006, 1997. Overall H: 30.3 cm, W: 21.8 cm, D: 25 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family (2006.4.74).

Whale Rock Boat, 2002. Overall H: 29 cm, W: 56.7 cm, D: 7.6 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family (2006.4.75).

Untitled, 1989. Glass. H: 8.25 in. W: 8 in, D: 8 in. Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Annie and Mike Belkin (1991.178).

Paul Hollister talks to Steven Weinberg about a piece he admires in a 1981 interview.

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Steven Weinberg, Paul Hollister

Paul Hollister talks to Steven Weinberg about a piece he admires in a 1981 interview. Paul Hollister Interview with Steven Weinberg, January 13, 1981 (Rakow title: Steven Weinberg interview [sound recording] / with Paul Hollister, BIB ID: 168607). Clip length: 00:57.

Steven Weinberg (SW): These, the small ones—

Paul Hollister (PH): You’re not gonna cut this up, are you?

SW: No. No, this is—

PH: That’s it.

SW: This is it, just needs to be polished.

PH: Oh. Isn’t that a honey. Wow.

SW: And these are complicated. These are freestanding forms. The half-inch dowels are freestanding outside, the three-quarter, and I’m trying to work—I have a technical problem, and that is, I’d like to have the same kind of form and [inaudible] just—one of these is a separate form—and cut, so that this is an object that moves within, that’s just entrapped, caged in. If you cut there, there, there, and there, like get a little hacksaw or something.

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Bibliography

Writings by Paul Hollister Bibliography

“Cast Glass by Steven Weinberg.” Glass Club Bulletin, no. 129 (Spring 1980): 5–8.

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“Steven Weinbergs Giesstechnik / Steven Weinberg’s Casting Technique: Something New Under the Sun.” Neues Glas, no. 4 (1981): 143–47.

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“A Search for Inner Form.” Collector Editions 8, no. 2 (Spring 1980): 42–43.

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