Since he was a child, Alex Gabriel Bernstein has been developing his glass art sensibilities. He grew up in a family of glass artists and has been teaching from the very beginning of his professional career. Until the beginning of 2007, he was the head of the glass department at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts. Before he took that position, he taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Penland School of Crafts.

But for Bernstein, the community and culture of glass has meant teamwork and challenge. Bernstein sees the intellectual landscape of glass art as a place for the interchange of ideas--a place for the germination of innovation.

The content of Bernstein's own sculptural work, however, relies on his vision and sensibilities. It is his feel for color and sculptural form that sets his work apart (and usually well ahead) of that of his contemporaries. It is his ability to combine the richness of color in dialogue with dynamic textures that allows Bernstein to articulate strong sculptural forms that deliver elegance and subtlety along with the force of clarity.

Bernstein is a great sculptor with a deep understanding of glass.