Elena Borstein (b.1946)
New York painter Elena Borstein, born in 1946, attended Skidmore College, and received her M.F.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Borstein has travelled countries around the Mediterranee and has been captivated by the visually rich landscape and the quality of the light in Greece. She found beauty in the play of light on the very simple geometric white houses, whose brightly painted gates accentuated a dreamy atmosphere.
She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her exhibitions include the Andre Zarre and Kathryn Markel galleries in New York City. Borstein's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and the Neuberger Museum.
Notable among her museum exhibitions are "American Realism" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1985 (her work appeared on the book's cover); and the Corcoran Gallery's major exhibition, "The Liberation--14 American Artists," which traveled to eleven countries. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the American Institute of Arts & Letters, the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York; the Everson Museum at Syracuse University; and the H.F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and others.
Source: Les Krantz, "American Artists, Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Artists" |
