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| Gerda Meyer Bernstein | |
Born: Westphalia, Germany |
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| About the Artist | |
Gerda Meyer Bernstein is an internationally known Chicago-based artist who addresses thorny global issues. Her work speaks through non-traditional materials, including discarded objects, transformed into emotionally eloquent environments. |
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Untold Story
2006 |
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| Two rows of 12 cots each representing Ward 57 at Walter Reed Hospital, the amputee ward, in a totally white atmosphere.
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River
2005-2006 |
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| A simple wood container overflowing as AIDS virus is spreading worldwide. 91x61 cm laminated prints are available for purchase. |
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Marginalized
2004-2005 |
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| Various female figures wrapped in dyed cloth same color as the green parachute laying in a circle representing the abuse of women. 91x61 cm laminated prints are available for purchase. |
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Exit Only
2002-2003 |
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| 18 battered doors leaning on walls covered with maps from all over the world representing human rights violations happening daily. Walking on the scattered newspaper clippings, each clipping picked up represents a human rights violation. 61x50 cm laminated prints are available for purchase. |
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Freedom March
2003 |
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| A life affirming tribute to young idealists that led the protests against Vietnam and were committed to the civil rights movement. 61x50 cm laminated prints are available for purchase. |
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Global Chaos
2004 |
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Tribunal
1999 |
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Windows
1999 |
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| Windows seeks to help break the silence about the widespread practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). I was motivated to construct this piece by anger and outrage about the violence that has been committed against more than 149 million girls and women, 2 million each year, in at least 29 countries. 91x61 cm laminated prints are available for purchase. |
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Phoenix
1994 |
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Army of the Disappeared
1987 |
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Hooded March
1987 |
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Block 11
1988-89 |
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kristallnacht
1993 |
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| Education and biography | |
| Undergraduate School of the Art Institute of Chicago M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1978) ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2007: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL University of Illinois I space Galleries, Chicago, IL Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2006: Indian University Northwest, IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gary, IN Site specific installation 'Hooded March' 2003: Kunsthaus Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; site-specific installation 'Freedom March' 2003: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL; site-specific installation 'Freedom March' 2001: Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL; site-specific installation 'Tribunal' 2000: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago,IL; site-specific installations 'Tribunal' and 'Windows' 1997: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL; site-specific installations 'The Agreement' and 'Exit Only' 1996: Ellis Island Immigration Museum, NEW YORK, NY; 'Passages' 1995: Alternative Museum, New York, NY; 'Block 11' 1994: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL; Site-specific installation 'The Eighth Deadly Sin' 1994: Robert F DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley College, Palos Hills, IL 1993: Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; 'Block 11' 1991: Rockford College, Rockford, IL; 'Block 11' 1989: A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; 'Block 11' 1987: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, West Germany; 'Political Visions' Bochum Museum, Bochum, West Germany; Political Visions Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany; 'Political Visions' 1985: A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1982: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, West Germany 1979: Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL 1978,75,74: ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL 1960: Angeleski Gallery, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004/2005: Lodz Biennaleâ, International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland 2002: Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington; 'Witness and Legacy 2001: South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; 'Witness and Legacy' 2000: Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona; 'Witness and Legacy' Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; 'Witness and Legacy' DeCirdiva Art Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; 'Witness and Legacy' 1999: 30 times 15 x 15, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL; '30 times 15 x 15' Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; 'Witness and Legacy' Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK; 'Witness and Legacy' New Jersey State Museum, NJ; 'Witness and Legacy' 1998: Tampa Bay Holocaust Museum, Tampa Bay, FL; 'Witness and Legacy' Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; 'Witness and Legacy' University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; 'Witness and Legacy' Contemporary Legacies of the Holocaust, Suburban Fine Art Center, Highland Park, IL; 'Shattered Visions' Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (Texas) Art Museum, Houston, TX; 'Witness and Legacy' Contemporary Legacies of the Holocaust, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL; 'Shattered Visions' Aurora Public Art Commission Museum and Gallery, Aurora, IL; 'Witness and Legacy' Robert De Caprio Gallery, Moraine College, Palos Hills, IL; 'Twelve Women Artists/ Women in the Arts' Gallery of Modern Art of the City of Ferrara, Italy, Palazzo Massari; Communicazioni Visive Tramiti Concessioni Globalia' Tampa Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; 'Witness and Legacy' 1996: Art Chicago Group Exhibition, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago IL Civil Rights Now, traveling exhibition - venues: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (organizer) Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY 1995: Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL Minnesota Museum of American Art; site-specific installation, 'Witness and Legacy': Art about the Holocaust, St. Paul, MN (traveling) 1994: Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL; 'Bridges & Boundaries': installation of 'Phoenix' The Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993: University of Wisconsin Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Peace Museum, Chicago, IL 1993: University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, Madison, WI 1992: A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1991: Burning in Hell: Invitational Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY 1990: Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL 1989: Chicago Office of Fine Arts, The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Five-person Invitational 'Alumni Exhibit': School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Nine-person Invitational 1987-88: A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1986: 'Political Statements': Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain 1985: 'American Women in Art': United Nations Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya; Women's Interart Center, New York, NY (Three-person Invitational) 1984: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, West Germany; (Five-person Invitational) Northern Illinois University, Swen Parson Gallery, DeKalb, IL; (Three-person Invitational) 'Chicago History': Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 'Five Artists': National Affiliate Exhibit 1982: 'Prints and Multiples by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity': National Academy of Design, New York, NY 'Artists of Chicago and Vicinity': The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Toured to: The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. National Academy of Design, New York,NY Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 1981: 'Studies Through Photography': Purdue University, Purdue, IN Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN; (One Year Traveling Exhibition) 'Generative Systems Exhibition': Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Print Club of Philadelphia, PA; International Competition 'Paper in Particular', Columbia College, Chicago, IL 1979: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Invitational 1978: 'New Horizons in Art', Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 1977: University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago campuses, IL; Invitational 'Works on Paper' University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO; Invitational 'Criticâs Choice' Invitational 1134 Gallery, Chicago, IL 'Artists of Chicago and Vicinity' The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; Invitational 1976: 28th Illinois Invitational; Illinois State Museum of Art, Springfield, IL 1975: New Horizons in Art; Invitational, Chicago, IL; Invitational 1974: Carleton College, Northfield MN; Invitational Women in Art; Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL; Invitational 1973: 35th Annual American Artists Exhibition; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1962: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Invitational 1961: Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Invitational 1956: 59th Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1955: 58th Exhibition Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Invitational 1954: 57th Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA; Invitational BIBLIOGRAPHY Ildiko Roed, exhibition review, Potsdam Tageszeitung, May 8, 2003 Von Gerold Paul, exhibition review, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, May 6, 2003 Becker, Carol, Gerda Meyer Bernstein, exhibition catalogue, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL Rushing, Natalie “Witness and Legacyâ€, Culture and Leisure Magazine, May 2000 Baigell, Matthew, Artist and Identity in 20th Century America, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Heyd, Milly, Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art, 1999, Rutgers University Press Patrick, Judy. 'A Study in Horror: Albany Exhibit Evokes Lasting Pain of Holocaust', Albany Gazette, January 25, 1998. Johnson, Patricia C. 'Witness to Terror', exhibition review, Houston Chronicle, 1997. Baigell, Matthew. Jewish-American Artists on the Holocaust, Rutgers University Press, 1997 Hawkins, Margaret. 'Artists: Memories Fuel Exhibits Attack on Tyranny', exhibition review, Chicago Sun-Times, June 20, 1997 Hamburg, Gail Vida. 'The Medium and the Message: Artists Share Politically-Charged Vision', Daily Southtown, July 18, 1997 Buzzoni, Andrea, et al. Communicazione Visive Tramiti Concessioni Globali, exhibition catalogue, Ferrara, Italy, 1996 Henley, P.S. , 'Ellis Island, Passages', Lifestyles, Spring 1996 Rodriguez, Geno, Leon Golub and Sonia Landy Sheridan, Gerda Meyer Bernstein, exhibition catalogue, Alternative Museum, New York, 1995 Feinstein, Stephen, editor. Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust, catalogue for traveling exhibition, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN, 1995 Anderson, Othello and Claire Wolf Krantz, Bridges and Boundaries, exhibition catalogue, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, 1994 Handler, Mona and Joan Marter, 'Block 11', exhibition review, Art Journal, College Art Association Journal, Winter 1994 Gerda Meyer Bernstein, exhibition catalogue, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; October 1993 Narratives of Loss, exhibition catalogue, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; 1993 Art Papers, Exhibition review, Volume 14, No. 6; Nov./Dec. 1990 Taylor, Sue and Gregory Knight, Present at the Creation, exhibition catalogue, Chicago Cultural Center; October 1989 Chicago Sun-Times, Exhibition review, October 29, 1989 Chicago Tribune, exhibition review, October 13 1989 ARTFORUM International, exhibition review, Summer 1989 Chicago Tribune, exhibition review, January 13 1989 Sulpher Magazine, #24, Spring, 1989 Schauer, Dr. Lucie. Political Visions, exhibition catalogue, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, February 1987 Karlsruhe Tageszeitung, exhibition review, Germany, October 1987 Kultur Magazine, exhibition review, Berlin; March 1987 Die Tageszeitung, exhibition review, Berlin, Germany; February 1987 Das Tagesspiegel, exhibition review, Berlin, Germany; February 22, 1987 Six Installations, exhibition catalogue, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1984 Berliner Morgenpost, exhibition review, Germany; July 1984 Tagesspiegel, exhibition review, Berlin, Germany; July 1984 RIAS, Berlin, Germany; Radio broadcast, exhibition review, July 13 1984 Muller, Dr. Johann. Gerda Meyer Bernstein, exhibition catalogue, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, September 1982 Das Kunstwerk International Art Magazine; exhibition review, December 1982 Who's Who in American Art Women Artists in America, Art Department, University of Tennessee COLLECTIONS Florida Holocaust Museum Various private and public collections |
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| 2008 Holocaust Museum, Orlando, FL 2010 Orlando Art Museum, Orlando, FL |
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