The Bright Group Welcomes Alison Berger Glassworks to its New York Showroom

About Alison Berger Glassworks:

Born in Dallas, Texas, Alison Berger has been blowing glass since the age of fifteen. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and then continued her studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. After working as an architect for many years, she established Alison Berger Glassworks in 1994.  Her innovative work is in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass. It has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in the exhibition The Un-Private House, and also at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, in the exhibition Design Life Now: National Design Triennial. Berger received the Elle Deco International Design Award for lighting.

Her work continues to be exhibited and published extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

All of her work is based on the idea that glass is a rarefied and special medium that deserves exceptional attention.  The tools and techniques are thousands of years old, allowing the history of glass blowing, the true touch of the hand, to be the heart and soul of every object.

Glass captures the process of remembering and, as the light fades, forgetting. Light is the medium, glass is the material and memory. Victorian fly traps, fireflies, apothecary jars and devices of measure are examples of the objects that have inspired this work. Rendered in glass, altered in scale and stripped of decoration, their essence is exposed. These pieces represent a reinterpretation that makes them feel contemporary and old world. Like memory itself, these glass objects, sculptures and furnishings transcend time and place.