Helaine Blumenfeld
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Helaine Blumenfeld OBE is one of the most accomplished and respected figures working in sculpture today. Upon gaining her phD in philosophy at Columbia University in 1964, Blumenfeld moved to Paris to train in sculpture at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière, where she studied with the Russian Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine. More »
In 1973, Blumenfeld moved to England and the same year exhibited at Kettles Yard, Cambridge. 1978 marked a turning point in her work when she first visited Pietrasanta, Italy and started carving marble. Blumenfeld has developed a practice inspired by Cycladic sculpture and Futurism, creating a sculptural vocabulary that is entirely her own.
Blumenfeld exhibited alongside Henry Moore at the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York in 1985, and became the first female sculptor to win the international sculpture prize 'Premio Pietrasantaela Versilianel Mondo' in 2007. « Less
Best known for her monumental public commissions, Blumenfeld is passionate about bringing sculpture into the public domain, creating works that have become integral to the cultural landscape in the UK. Most notably, 'Tempesta' overlooking Hyde Park in London, installed in 2012 and ‘Fortuna’ in Canary Wharf in 2016. Blumenfeld's pieces represent some of the definitive examples of public sculpture in the UK. More »
Helaine Blumenfeld's facility at positioning her sculpture in the magical zone between abstraction and figuration has been the key to her success. Her luminous works play with duality, introducing a remarkable lightness to carved stone. Testing the limits of her material, Blumenfeld creates impossibly thin, undulating structures through a profound understanding of the boundaries of her materials. Recent pieces have seen her expand her practice to experiment with Silver Nitrate patinas- a nod to her father- in- law, the acclaimed photographer Erwin Blumenfeld. « Less
