Alex Bernstein - Landscapes of Fire and Light
The award-winning American artist presents a bold and refreshing
examination of visual form and skillfully combines metaphors
with the power and sensuality of shaped glass. His cast,
carved and polished glass sculptures offer the viewer narrative
landscapes consisting of light, shape and color.
The forms of Bernstein's works and the techniques he uses to do so
processed glass reflects processes in nature such as oxidation, erosion,
growth and decline. Therefore, many of his works evoke images of
flowing water, ice crystals, mountain peaks and rugged gorges
- all structures that appear solid and unyielding
but are actually in constant change.
His work reflects his sense of exploration: an exquisite one
cut geometric crystal sculpture in front of a rusted one
Steel background, volcanic eruptions of cut glass emerging from
a base encrusted with steel bubbles, layers more transparent
color that blends with ambient light.
