“Using glass as her primary medium and the past as her inspiration, the Los Angeles-based artist has explored her fascination with light in a stunningly diverse and ever-evolving body of work – vases, sculptures, drawings, lighting, site installations. Blurring boundaries long before it became a trend, she's moved easily and with considerable success between the worlds of art, craft, design, architecture, fashion and film, with technical mastery and a sure vision as her constants.

She draws from myriad influences and eras – fourth-century Roman glass, baroque floral still lifes, old scientific instruments, her own flea-market finds – to create timeless narratives. Whatever the scale or format, her objective remains the same: history reinterpreted, concept distilled to essence.”

Alison Berger is an artist whose medium is light and whose material is glass. Whether designing light fixtures, objects, furnishings or large-scale sculptures, she uses age-old glass blowing techniques to create glass forms that transcend time and capture light. Derived from historic forms that have been stripped down to their essence, her work feels simultaneously old world and modern.

Born in Dallas, Texas, Alison Berger is trained as an architect. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and continued her studies at Columbia University's School of Architecture. After working as an architect for many years, first with Bausman-Gill and Associates, where she collaborated on the award-winning headquarters of Warner Bros. Records in Rockefeller Center, and then with Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Berger began to devote herself to her glass design full time in 1995.

Having studied glass blowing for more than 25 years and apprenticed with sculptor Dale Chihuly, Berger uses a time proven, and time consuming, process to create her art. Her work includes several, limited-edition lines of glass objects, lighting and furniture that bridge her architectural and sculptural sensibilities, as well as ongoing large-scale, site-specific commissions. In addition to the lines she produces under her own name, Berger was the first American artist to create a line of accessories for the venerable French fashion house, Hermès.

She has designed objects for film and music videos, such as Practical Magic, Tank Girl and Madonna's Bedtime Stories, and was one of a select group of artists commissioned by Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons, to create an architectural installation as a backdrop for her glass objects at the company's Tokyo Showroom. In 2005, Berger was awarded the prestigious Elle Deco International Design Award for lighting.

Her innovative work is part of the permanent collection of the Corning Museum and has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006, she was selected to exhibit as part of Design Life Now, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's National Design Triennial, and in 2010 was invited to participate in the Visiting Artist Program at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

Berger's work continues to be exhibited and published extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work is available through Holly Hunt showrooms in United States and at Plug Lighting in Los Angeles.