{{Short description|American artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Meridel Rubenstein | image = Meridel Rubenstein in 2024.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Meridel Rubenstein in 2024 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|03|26}} | birth_place = Detroit, MI | education = Minor White | alma_mater = Sarah Lawrence College<br/>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br/>University of New Mexico | known_for = Photography | notable_works = | style = narrative, mixed-media installation | movement = | spouse = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = {{URL|http://www.meridelrubenstein.com/}} }}

'''Meridel Rubenstein''' (born 1948) is an American photographer and installation artist based out of New Mexico. She is known for her large-format photographs incorporating sculptures and unusual media.

==Biography== [[File:'Monks in a Canoe' by Meridel Rubenstein, 2000-2001.JPG|thumb|right|400px|''Monks in a Canoe'' by Meridel Rubenstein, 2000–2001, Honolulu Museum of Art]]

Rubenstein was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948. In 1970, Rubenstein earned a bachelor's degree in social science, with a film-making emphasis from Sarah Lawrence College. She received an M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the same institution in 1977, studying with Beaumont Newhall and Franck Van Deren Coke.<ref>Naylor, Colin, ed., "Contemporary Photographers," St. James Press, 1988, pp. 879-881.</ref> She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1983.<ref>[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=5778 Smithsonian American Art Museum]</ref> From 1985 to 1990 she was head of the photography department at San Francisco State University.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=Anna Christine|title=To Collect the Art of Women : The Jane Reese Williams Photography Collection Biographies and Statements of the Artists|date=1991|publisher=Museum of New Mexico|location=Santa Fe, NM}}</ref> In 1990 she returned to New Mexico to teach at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2006, she received a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|last1=The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.|title=Meridel Rubenstein|url=http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/artist/Meridel_Rubenstein/works/#!1473|website=pkf-imagecollection.org|accessdate=7 May 2017}}</ref> She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Singapore.

Rubenstein is best known for her large-format photographs incorporating sculptures and unusual media, such as ''Monks in a Canoe'' from 2000 to 2001 in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. This work consists of a dye transfer on glass and a found wooden dug-out canoe. Her photographic series, ''The Volcano Cycle'', is a component of the larger project, ''Eden Turned on its Side''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pardee|first1=Hearn|title=MERIDEL RUBENSTEIN The Volcano Cycle|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=October 5, 2015|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2015/10/artseen/meridel-rubinstein-the-volcano-cycle|accessdate=7 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="Fraction">{{cite web|title=Heaven Turned on Its Side by Meridel Rubenstein|url=http://www.fractionmagazine.com/meridel-rubenstein/|website=Fraction Magazine, Issue 49|accessdate=7 May 2017}}</ref>

==Collections== The Honolulu Museum of Art,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Honolulu Museum of Art|title=Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce|url=http://honolulumuseum.org/art/exhibitions/13981-decisive_moments_photographs_jim_and_cherye_pierce_collection/|accessdate=7 May 2017}}</ref> the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany), the New Mexico Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC) are among the public collections holding work by Meridel Rubenstein.<ref>[http://www.meridelrubenstein.com/bio-2/ The artist's website]</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability|title=Meridel Rubenstein|url=https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/meridel-rubenstein/|accessdate=7 May 2017}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Davis, Tim, "Beyond the Sacred and the Profane: Cultural Landscape Photography in America, 1930-1990", in ''Mapping American Culture'', ed. Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner, Univ. of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1992, pp.&nbsp;191–230. * Garner, Gretchen, ''Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land'', Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1987, pp.&nbsp;38–39. * Green, Jonathan, ''American Photography -A Critical History'', Harry Abrams, 1984, pp.&nbsp;149,154, 211. * Jussim, Estelle, ''Landscape as Photograph'', Yale University Press, 1985, pp.&nbsp;17, 18, 128–30. * Rubenstein, Meridel, “Georgia O’Keeffe as a Role Model”, in ''From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon'', ed. Christopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury, Addison-Wesley, 1992, pp.&nbsp;187–92. * Rubenstein, Meridel, ''La Gente De La Luz'', New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 1977. * Rubenstein, Meridel and Ellen Zweig, ''Critical Mass'', New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 1993. * Smith, Joshua P. and Merry A. Foresta, ''The Photography of Invention – American Pictures of the 1980s'', National Museum of American Art, MIT Press, pp.&nbsp;166–67. * Yates, Steve, ''The Essential Landscape'', Univ of New Mexico Press,1985, pp.&nbsp;23,132-5.

==External links== * [http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=106477 Meridel Rubenstein on AskArt.com]

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