source: gerdameyerbernstein

Gerda Meyer Bernstein is an internationally known Chicago-based artist who addresses thorny global issues. Her previous exhibitions include “Witness & Legacy,” a traveling museum exhibition; The Alternative Museum in New York City, The Spertus Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago; “Passages” at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum; and at the New Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany.
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source: saatchiart

Born: Westphalia, GermanyCurrently living and working in Chicago, IllinoisGallery Affiliation: Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, ILFounding Member: ARC (Artists, Residents of Chicago), 1973, a non-profit membership-governed feminist galleryGerda 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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source: museumsdepauledu

The emotionally charged installations of Gerda Meyer Bernstein operate on a human scale while addressing issues of great political and moral magnitude. Informed by her personal and family history–the artist escaped Nazi Germany as a child in the Kindertransport while many family members were killed–she explores the difficult question of how individuals should respond to violence, disaster, injustice. Three recent works, vastly different in media and approach, all probe the interface of humanity and inhumanity. The viewer becomes witness and participant in orderly but disquieting scenarios in which vestiges of human activity as simple as sheets of paper conjure dark events of the past and an ominous future.