WEINSTEIN, Marilyn (sculpture)

It was not until a family friend lent her some basic tools, gave her a marble fragment, and suggested that she try her hand at direct carving, that a life-long love affair with sculpture was born. M. Weinstein’s ability to render a sense of immediacy in her work, in effect to 'stop the clock' for an instant, is an integral part of her sculpture's narrative.

She studied art at New York University and the Sorbonne in Paris, and was influenced by the work of the great 19th and early 20th century romantics, Rodin, the (animalier) sculptor, Antoine Louis Barye , and Rosa Bonheur among others. Although at first she did not pursue a career in art, she says it was always the sculpture that drew her in at exhibitions and museums." She has worked in stone and bronze, sometimes mixing the two. Her works are in numerous private collections in the US and abroad, and she has exhibited in a wide variety of galleries and shows.