Who We Are
The lifework of Rina and Newt Malerman
Rina Malerman earned her B.F.A and B.S. in Ed. at Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, where she studied printmaking with Morris Blackburn, and Romas Viesulas, painting with Furman Fink and Alexander Abels., and sculpture with Raphael Sabatini ,Rudy Staffel and Steve Lewis.
She taught at Harcum College and The Miquon School Abington Art Center and Settlemant Music School
Rina is a graduate of the Barnes Foundation Program and Seminar.
Rina, early in her career was known as a painter of children's portraits. A substantial body of her work include collagraphs, viscosity etchings, and hand made cast paper for which she received many awards. She served as guest lecturer in experimental printmaking at Lehigh University.
Painting commissions and prints hang in public and private collections throughout the Delaware Valley, and in New York, New Jersey, Florida and California.
Currently she devotes herself to exploring the mysteries of glass.
Newt Malerman earned his B.F.A. and B.S. in Ed. at Tyler. He studied sculpture with Boris Blai and Raphael Sabatini, and Welding with Raphael Ferrar.
He was Director of Art at the laboratory school of The Temple University Teachers College. He later became president of a large graphics-oriented business.
Newt is a Barnes Foundation Seminarian and is represented in private collections in Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Palm Beach. His public work includes architectural sculpture for Temple Shalom, Cedar Grove, N.J., and for the Holmes Avenue branch of the Philadelphia Public Library, where he worked with Louis Kahn, who juried the project.
He has exhibited at many art shows, and won first prize in sculpture at the Phillips Mill Bucks County Annual. He and Rina have also exhibited in several two-person shows, including an extensive retrospective at Lehigh University.
He continues his work in mixed media, including welded metals, woodcarving and glass.
Artists Comments
Passion
We work in the Fine Arts, but now spend most of our time exploring the amazing qualities of glass. We love the way it changes when light reflects, the shadows it produces, and the depth of the layers... Magical and Mysterious! We use an array of dichroic, translucent, iridescent, opalescent, and spirit glass– always at the service of good design, assuring that the glass delights and surprises.
We use every glass technique except glass blowing, which is a team sport that requires a crew for support. We do slumping, fusing, cold-working, Pate’ DeVerre, and casting of hand-made frit to create one-of-a-kind pieces. We often fire a work 3 or 4 times to get the desired effect. We frequently use techniques that are cited as impossible in the glass textbooks.
Reaction to our work
We love the response we get to our glass work.(“OMG!”)
Exhibitions and Honors
Uniqueness
Other glass artists have told us that no one is making glass quite like ours, and we are proud that many craftspeople exhibiting at the same venues as us have chosen to collect our work..
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