Alex Bernstein

Spring Balance

I think of myself as an artist who is enthusiastic about architecture, color, and light. As a curious guy with a degree in philosophy, I had no idea where this journey would take me when a friend of mine gave me his stained glass business in 1977. And so it’s been an incredible exploration of all the qualities that make up glass as a medium. I’ve grown up artistically with what is called the modern glass movement. I’ve been inspired by my peers as well as by artists such as Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, Henry Moore, and Mark Rothko. I inhabit the symbolic, the cosmic, and the mystery. I love that images can come and go, are made bold, and then disappear; are reflective and then not. The energetic and mystical side comes from the teachings of my spiritual Master, Sant Kirpal Singh, by whose instructions I meditate every day in my personal effort to connect to and be receptive to the vibration of the mysteries. Calligraphy has always been attractive to me. Eastern ideograms. Greek letters. Arabic writing. So keeping those in mind I feel free to create my own symbols that at once have meaning in their elegance as graphics and at once maintaining the sense that language and lettering can lead one into other consciousnesses and cultures; other ways of seeing things and their interconnectedness, that can be startling and fascinating. Two years in Taiwan as a child and five years in Athens, Greece as a teenager gave me the sense of otherness and the exploration thereof. How can one not be affected by marble ruins...

Represented by George Billis Gallery. Bernstein skillfully combines metaphor with the power and sensuality of sculpted glass. His cast, carved and polished glass sculptures provide...

Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly ...

Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly ...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel available and imported from the Milan area. They are hand made by directly molding and welding the Italian stainless steel plates into sculptures full of movement and light. The surface is finished with a very labour intensive high quality mirror finish intertwined with fish scale and opaque Ferrari engine...

Alice Federico was born in Selma, Alabama in 1945. She received a BA degree in history from Hollins University (1967), an MFA in ceramics from East Carolina University (1977), as wel...

DOUBLE HELIX can suspended from a ceiling or from a semi circular tension bar as shown here. The dichroic glass shifts color from different points of vie...

Bloom No. 1 from the Bloom Series by Norman Mooney Acrylic, mirror-polished stainless steel, birch plywood base Ediion of 3 Inspired by the work of the 19th century biologist Ernst ...

Bloom No. 2 from the Bloom Series by Norman Mooney White frosted acrylic, mirror-polished stainless steel, birch plywood base Edition of 3 Inspired by the work of the 19th century b...

Bloom No. 4 from the Bloom Series by Norman Mooney Mirror-polished stainless steel, birch plywood base Inspired by the work of the 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel and his study...

FOCUS is a public art sculpture about photographic vision and how it shapes the way we see the world. It is concerned with the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experienc...

Italian artist Annalù Boretto's dreamy sculptures enchant onlookers with hyper-realistic water splashes and brilliant colors. Born in Venice in 1976, the artist worked for years to d...