Beryl Brenner

Beryl2b@yahoo.com

Glass presents the artist with a wonderfully spectacular material to work with.  It is a cold, hard material that can be melted and made to be hot and soft.  It can be opaque or translucent. Works made in glass can be functional or they can be art or they can be both simultaneously. Glass that hangs in a window can look one way in the morning sunlight and a completely different way when sunset arrives. Once an artist discovers the pleasures of working with glass they inevitably fall in love with its look and its unique properties.

Beryl Brenner obtained her BA in fine arts and her MA in art-ed. from Brooklyn College. She has worked with a variety of materials and techniques. Ms. Brenner has completed the glasswork for Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church in Danbury and Beth Shalom Synagogue in Atlanta. She has been granted 8 one woman shows throughout the country including one with the National Park Service, the National Landmark Bok Tower Gardens and the prestigious Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. Her art has been shown in numerous American museums and galleries including Ann Marie Gardens, a SMITHSONIAN AFFILIATE, the Attleboro Arts Museum, Dot-fifty One in the Miami Art District, Altered Esthetics in the Minneapolis Art District, and the Philadelphia sketch club, the Crest Hardware show, the Robert Lehman Gallery of Urban Glass, Brooklyn Borough Hall's gallery, the Williamsburg Salon, the Represent Brooklyn exhibition in Bedford Stuyvesant and the 2019 LIC open. Her work is in the permanent collection of Williamsburg Art and Historical Center.