Illuminated Architecture: Elena Borstein's Greek Works - Softcover
Elena Borstein , an internationally known artist , travelled to the Greek Islands for forty years photographing the vernacular Greek architecture and the luminous Mediterranean light. Over this period she produced over 150 paintings and pastels,26 which are pictured in this volume. Janet Koplos , critic and former editor of Art in America, called these paintings "Illuminated .Architecture" in her 3000 word essay by that title.
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Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. She was born in Hartford, CT. and received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore College, and her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She is professor Emerita of York College, C.U.N.Y. Her work is represented in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y.C. ; Hayden Museum,MIT, Cambridge ,MA; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse,NY; Newark Museum,Newark,NJ. She has shown at art Galleries throughout the United States and Europe and is currently represented by the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York City, and the Atea Ring Gallery in Wesport, New York.
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I'm reminded of Tadea Ando's early architecture, with its empty concrete courtyards in which sun and rain and wind mark the presence of nature. Borstein captures that same clarity and heightening of the senses in her paintings. JanetKoplos --Illuminated Architecture
..I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. Strong, aggressive shadows emerge swiftly from the surrounding light and cut abruptly through the breathless air, air so thick with the musk of lavender and cypress it is palpable. Borstein's space is empty and serene, filled only with the radiant light and the absence of sound. These paintings are so still one wishes, like Alice to be able to step through the mirror into them and inhabit her world. Nina FFrench-Frazier --Art International Vol XXIII/9
These scenes evoke memories unhampered by human associations. But the memories do not just recall a remote geography and touristic experiences. Rather, Borstein's modernism directs us to the intrinsic qualities of the pastels themselves and stirs our aesthetic responses to recollections of timeless constructions of shapes, colors and spaces. Patricia Hills --Elena Borstein: Mediterranean World
..I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. Strong, aggressive shadows emerge swiftly from the surrounding light and cut abruptly through the breathless air, air so thick with the musk of lavender and cypress it is palpable. Borstein's space is empty and serene, filled only with the radiant light and the absence of sound. These paintings are so still one wishes, like Alice to be able to step through the mirror into them and inhabit her world. Nina FFrench-Frazier --Art International Vol XXIII/9
These scenes evoke memories unhampered by human associations. But the memories do not just recall a remote geography and touristic experiences. Rather, Borstein's modernism directs us to the intrinsic qualities of the pastels themselves and stirs our aesthetic responses to recollections of timeless constructions of shapes, colors and spaces. Patricia Hills --Elena Borstein: Mediterranean World
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- PublisherElena Borstein
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1450765424
- ISBN 13 9781450765428
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages36
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