Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to publish a catalog of the exhibition "Meridel Rubenstein: Eden In Iraq", presented from February 23 – April 6, 2019. The exhibition featured recent photoworks that explore themes of destruction and renewal through the social, political, and environmental history of Southern Iraq, the area believed to be the location of the Biblical Eden on Earth.
Meridel Rubenstein was born in Detroit, MI and received an MA (1974) and MFA (1977) from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Rubenstein’s photoworks have been the focus of numerous museum exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. She was one of only two New Mexico artists included in the inaugural Site Santa Fe in 1995. In 2018 Rubenstein was the subject of a one-person exhibition, "Eden Turned on its Side", at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, for which a monograph was published. Meridel Rubenstein's photoworks can be found in museums and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.