Deborah Ehrlich
Deborah Ehrlich
Deborah Ehrlich was born in Passaic, New Jersey. She received her bachelors degree in anthropology from Barnard College in 1988. During her college years she worked as a photo assistant to Ray Charles White in New York City. She then sought out private instruction with the master sculptor Mike Skop, a deciple of Ivan Mestrovic, in Ft. Thomas Kentucky. It was during her studies with Mike Skop that her artistic vision and language gained clarity.
Ehrlich then traveled and lived extensively in Europe: restoring the stained glass of St. Stephan’s cathedral in Vienna, and studying at Denmark’s Design School in Copenhagen, where she was introduced to blown glass production.
Upon returning to the States in 1998, Ehrlich made the Hudson Valley in New York State her home. Since 1999 she has been designing crystal glassware from her studio in New York. Ehrlich designs in a visceral and immediate way. As a designer, she favors a simple pencil on tracing paper. The delicacy of line weight and feeling in her drawings communicate directly in the finished product. The production comes from Sweden, hand blown by a master craftsman.
Deborah Ehrlich’s work is in numerous collections world wide. It is published extensively and available in New York at The Cooper-Hewitt Store, E.R. Butler, Moss, and Takashimaya among others. She currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.