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Bordo: Another Day
September 6 – October 22, 2005
132 Tenth Avenue Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
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EXHIBITION: Robert Bordo: Another Day
DATES: September 6 – October 22, 2005
LOCATION: 132 Tenth Avenue between 18th and 19th
HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Robert Bordo’s exhibition, Another Day, will open on September
6th at Alexander and Bonin. The imagery of his new paintings hovers between
abstraction and landscape utilizing the particulars of time, place and
weather. Known for his transformations of pre-existing two-dimensional
models such as maps, charts, envelopes and postcards, Bordo continues
to explore the line between subject and abstraction.
Bordo’s new color paintings offer abstract pictorial elements of
brushstroke and staggered line to describe the ruminative quality of experience.
Interior logic pervades these naturalistic paintings where light, atmosphere
and narrative meet. Meandering dots and dashes refer to weather or wandering;
rippled surfaces are interchangeably water, sky or ground—all locations
where everyday images, thoughts and emotion run together.
Pictorial metaphors lead one into naturalistic spaces and the ambiguity
of experience. In lazy game white dots, countered by black ones, move
like water bugs across a shallow surface. suite evokes desert topography;
a mirage created by a shifting underneath. While the red scrabble undertones
of prickly pear suggest a mowed lawn or a stubbly five o’clock shadow,
the title posits a tender interior.
Robert Bordo was born in Montreal and has lived and worked in New York
since 1972. His first New York solo exhibition was held at Brooke Alexander
in 1987. He has also exhibited with Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
and Mira Godard, Toronto. His paintings were most recently seen in Incorrigible,
Sentimental curated by Merlin James (Kerlin Gallery, Dublin) and Mirage
curated by Julie Ault and Martin Beck (Alexander and Bonin). He is a professor
at the Cooper Union School of Art.
For photographs or further information, please contact Amy Levin at 212/367-7474
or al@alexanderandbonin.com. Additional information and images can also
be found on www.alexanderandbonin.com

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