Gloria Bornstein, April 1

Gloria Bornstein

You've been confirmed as queen

Opening reception:

First Thursday, April 1, 6 - 8pm
also
Gallery talk with Gloria Bornstein

Saturday afternoon, April 3, 4 - 5pm

Sculpture and works on paper by Gloria Bornstein

The queens explore the Rorschach test, an inkblot given meaning by the viewer more than by the subject, and are open to multiple interpretations.

For me, the polished stainless steel elements and wood head forms draw from the past and imagine the future, deepening my understanding of how we look backward towards the future.

The artworks developed from a voice in one of my dreams, a Rorschach itself, reminding me of how history can be reconstituted in personal and public memory. I am pleased to install the artworks at Kobo in Japantown because it's the site of the historic Higo Variety Store where Japantown's history is reconstituted in the present.

Gloria Bornstein, March 2010

The artist studied art at Hunter College, basket-making with Lena Dunstan, Haida elder, conceptual art with Allan Kaprow at UCSD, and psychology at Antioch College. Exhibitions include the Seattle Art Museum, The Jewish Museum, NY, Bellevue Art Museum and Fuel Gallery. Her public art commissions are placed on the campus of Eastern Washington University, the Seattle Center, Fire Station 10, Chinatown- International District, the streetscape of Harborview Hospital, Microsoft and the Azabu Juban neighborhood, Tokyo, Japan.