Alex Gabriel Bernstein, born in 1973 in Asheville, North Carolina, grew up in a creative family surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains. After studying psychology and working in a children’s psychiatric hospital, he pursued an MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology and established his studio in Asheville in 2007. Bernstein’s glass sculptures, moulded, cut, and polished, explore time and nature’s transformative processes through intimate narrative landscapes. Using subtractive techniques, textures, and colour gradations, his works interact with light to create illusions of movement, while his recent method of applying metal adds a serrated, protective layer to his creations.