Alison Weld went to see a friend’s artwork at the New York Public Library’s Center for Book Arts Exhibit.
There, she saw Stella Waitzkin’s cast-resin sculpture “The Filmmaker” and was struck.
“I loved it,” Weld said. “I called her that day on the pay phone outside the library. We met two weeks later.”
The two women, Weld, an abstract expressionist, and Waitzkin, a sculptor with abstract roots who created resin sculptures from casts of leathery books, were friends for two decades until Waitzkin’s death 15 years ago.
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