Teplin Wins Bianchi Scholarship Award
Zach Teplin is on a roll. The Huntington High School senior recently gained acceptance to prestigious Cooper Union for the fall semester and was a recipient of the Renzo S. Bianchi Scholarship Award at the annual Long Island Best art show at the Heckscher Museum.
Mr. Teplin’s talent is well-known around the school and in the community. He’s been winning kudos for several years and is an affable and personable teenager. “Zach is just a great student,” said Kristin Singer, a Huntington art teacher who has worked closely with Mr. Teplin. “He is smart, funny, sensitive, serves as an inspiration for my students and a joy to have in my class. Next year there definitely will be a hole in my classroom without him.”
Before a crowd of several hundred who were in attendance for the opening reception and awards presentation at the Heckscher, Lynette Bianchi extolled Mr. Teplin, who is a repeat recipient of the Bianchi scholarship. The award recognizes the top young artists on Long Island for their “effort, dedication and talent.”
Mr. Teplin garnered the award for his mixed media piece, “Untitled.” The inspiration for his work was A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey’s 1931 perspective sketch, “Aluminaire House.”
“Throughout art history, the square has been closely connected with man and his constructions, with architecture, building forms, lettering, etc., while the circle is related to the divine,” Mr. Teplin said in an artist’s statement accompanying his work. “The figure form relationship between objects in this piece reflects the tension between the architecture of man and the divine. The term ‘architecture’ in this piece refers to the design of our letters and buildings, as well as our bodies and movements.”
A member of the National Art Honor Society, Mr. Teplin attended a pre-college program at the Rhode Island School of Design last summer, studying painting, drawing and graphic design. He attended a similar pre-college program at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston in 2008. All the work has paid off with his acceptance into Cooper Union.
“Zach brings his creativity to everything he touches,” Mrs. Singer said. “Sometimes, our art department staff talks of how he oozes creativity from every pore in his skin. We have affectionately named him our own Huntington High School Leonardo da Vinci because of his infinite imagination and inventiveness.”
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