This Instalation is the complete collection of paintings made by artist Scot Borofsky beginning on the morning of September 11th, 2001 and completed in April of 2002, six and a half months later. The artist has kept the group intact and they have never been shown in their entirety. The artist has written a short commentary to go with each painting.
"Toloache" Collection
"September 11th" Installation
"Stepped Mountains" Installation
"Mixtec Serape" Installation
"September 11th" Installation
"Toloache" Collection
"Stepped Mountains" Installation
"Mixtec Serape" Installation
"Toloache" Collection
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"On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I was working in my studio listening to the radio, when the the shocking reports came across the air, a plane had collided with the World Trade Center. I listened, and dipped my brush in the black paint....."
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This Instalation is the complete collection of paintings made by artist Scot Borofsky beginning on the morning of September 11th, 2001 and completed in April of 2002, six and a half months later. The artist has kept the group intact and they have never been shown in their entirety. The artist has written a short commentary to go with each painting.
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7x15 ft. Mural: "The Story of Fresh Water"
Works on Paper: A Travel Journal of Landscapes
The "Built" Pieces
Artist's Sketch Books
From Mexico to Bolivia
Scot Borofsky's "Stepped Mountain Installation" shows the travels of a young artist in search of history, inspiration and personal vision. The conceptual approach to an age old subject is both interesting and unusual. Borofsky creates a world of his own, combining observation with stylized metaphor and giving the viewer a personal look at the fulfillment of an artist's youth through the visual record of travel observations and experiences. Emulating favorite influences, such as the Japanese poet, Basho; and the western Rennaiscance artist, Leonardo da Vinci; ancient Chinese landscape painting; and the architectural lines of the pre-Columbian pyramids: in this series, the artist plants his roots firmly in history.
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The "Serape Series" Installation is comprised of selected pieces from the artist's studio, ranging from as early as 1990 till 1998. The 'serapes' woven by the women of the Mexican Sierra Mixteca were discovered by Borofsky, when he witnessed people covered by them, sleeping in the bus station on a cold night in Oaxaca City. Seeing, in these weavings, a completely traditional craft alive and still growing and evolving, nearly unaffected by modern influences, Borofsky also saw all of his favorite elements from pre-Columbian aesthetic traditions. The painter collected many examples of the Mixtec work, becoming familiar with the small mountain villages where they are created 'from sheep to blanket'. The serapes themselves, along with the traditional and improvised design elements they are decorated with, have served as inspiration for hundreds of artworks by Borofsky. The best are here, with some of the weavings that inspired them. The shift from "figure-ground orientation" to "over-all surface organization" as the artist's dominant thought process, is documented by these pieces, while the focus on the Mixtec serapes links them all.
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The painting, "Toloache", (toe-low-ah-chay), represents the height of spray-paint technique for artist Scot Borofsky. As Cezanne had the desire to create work strong enough so that Impressionist painting could hang next to already established art, in the museums, so Borofsky has wanted to accompluish the same thing with spray-painting. This figurative allegory, shows a combination of free-hand and stencil techniques. The composition references diverse historical sources: a frescoe of a fallen female warrior from the ruins of Pompeii; decorative patterns experienced as hallucinations by Amazonian natives; Ukio-e Japanese wood-block print technique; and the plant "toloache", Aztec for "datura", also known as "jimson weed". The plant has the reputation of being used for conscious dream travel by traditional shamans.
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