| Torso was made in reaction to the bombings in London in July 2005, based on memories of classical sculpture in the British Museum, and in response to B. H. Fairchild's poem Beauty.
September 11th is an allegorical figure of New York City made right after the attack. She is deliberately and defiantly a female nude, as part of a sculptural tradition the Taliban hate and would destroy.
The Couple is a portrait of a happy marriage. The wife cradles a small, phallic portrait of her husband. The husband bears a portrait of his wife like a fetus.
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor who for over 30 years has been making work that deals with complex themes in an accessible, beautiful and stimulating way. Meredith works on both public monuments as well as on a private scale. She seeks out public commissions that involve issues of history, race, human rights, disabilities and the power of poetry and music expressed through the human figure. Her private works often involve visual and verbal puns.
Her largest public commission, unveiled in 2003, was for the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. She is currently sculpting a monumental head of a young girl for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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