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Although most of her work time
has been spent in her private studio,
Kaplan has tried her hand at other
professional pursuits. She taught art
for a year, and she fashioned displays
for the downtown Hudson's store.
"I've tried to solicit corporate and
private collections," says Kaplan; who
adjusts scale according to clients' pref-
erences. "I did a train piece for a com-
pany that is in the rail business in
California, and I did a bag with [phar-
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Michigan, where she majored in clay.
After graduation, she began sculpting
realistic pieces, but they weren't to
scale. As her style evolved, the work
moved into life-size replicas.
"My work started out being whimsi-
cal, and although [projects] still can be
humorous, there's a more serious side,"
Kaplan says. "My pieces are unusual,
not what you'd expect from clay. "
Kaplan applies her craft using a puz-
zle format. The pieces are actually con-
structed out of a solid block of clay, cut
into sections and reassembled. In that
way, she can hollow out the compo-
nents and make for lighter structures.
"They're reassembled so viewers
can't tell that was done," she explains.
"With the leather jacket, for example,
I reassembled according to the seam
lines so that step can't be seen."
Kaplan works out of a studio built
above her garage. Artistic time
becomes available when her husband,
Robert, is at work and her three chil-
dren are at school.
"My husband works in retail hard-
ware, and he has given me access to
materials I need," Kaplan says. "That's
been very helpful. I ve always been
interested in tools because I like work-
ing with my hands. I have a clay tool
chest, an older piece that I did, and I
keep that in our dining room."
Kaplan, who is a member of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek and
whose children have gone to Hillel
Day School, has created Judaica.
When she had an exhibition at the
Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, she
included a set of sculpted refillin.
"Being in a Jewish gallery, I wanted
to do something dedicated to that,"
the artist explains.
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chain. The bag was really an assemblage
with an old-fashioned scale that could
have been used in a pharmacy and a
tray on which pills would be counted."
Kaplan has been accepted into the
Art in Embassies program and loaned
work to the embassy in Norway when
David Hermelin was appointed ambas-
sador. Before being accepted, she had
to submit slides of her work and
wound up sending a pair of clay boots.
"The pieces that I do really are
about my observing life and reflect the
way I'm grounded," says Kaplan, who
has shared her interest in art with her
aunt, Helen Kaplan, a retired art
teacher. "When hockey got big, I did
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