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.
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.[5][6]
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^The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. "Meridel Rubenstein". pkf-imagecollection.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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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. 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.
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