'Teal Passage' icey turquoise-colored glass sculpture, glacier-like, signed and dated on base Alex Gabriel Bernstein 2007. This piece was bequeathed from a private foundation to Ringling School of Art & Design. Bernstein was born in 1972 with access to many of the artists of the American studio glass movement. He studied psychology at the University of North Carolina and worked at a children's psychiatric hospital before making the decision to pursue his artistic endeavors full time. As the child of two established glass artists, William and Katherine Bernstein, the beautiful surroundings of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina where they lived played almost as much of a part in his inspired upbringing as did the breadth of teachers around him. Size: 11 x 18 in.