Fran Taubman, Jeff Quinn & Ted Abramczyk

Ted Abramczyk was trained as an architect and received his B.Arch from the Pratt Institute. While completing his architectural apprenticeship at Davis Brody and Associates, he began to sculpt and in 1991, after winning a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Abramczyk left architectural practice to concentrate on art and design. In 1996 he founded Abramczyk Studio, a design firm that specializes in designing and handcrafting custom lighting fixtures for both residential and commercial clients. His art and architecture background is evident in his fixtures, which evolve out of variations on a geometric theme, and aim to unite functionality with the aesthetics of a glowing sculptural object. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2012.

Jeff Quinn was born in Bucks County, PA in 1964. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting. Based in New York City, he teaches drawing and painting at the Parsons School of Design and has completed site-specific murals for the RALPH PUCCI gallery facades in Miami and Los Angeles. Landscapes are a reoccurring theme in Quinn’s work, and he cites spontaneity as an integral element of the creative process. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2003.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Fran Taubman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979 with a degree in industrial design and a BFA in Fine Art. In 1988, she established her first studio in Bridgehampton, NY and later moved to Shelter Island, NY, where she has lived and operated her studio since 2005. Taubman’s artistic passion is the fabrication of sculptural lighting and furniture using stock industrial materials (bronze, copper, steel) and machines. None of her work is cast. She also fabricates gates, balustrades, walls and doors by commission. Her goal is to reveal the beauty in the assemblage and joinery of stock metals. All of her work is fabricated in her Shelter Island studio in the spirit of the twentieth century American Arts and Crafts.