Works
Exhibitions
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Sam Bornstein
Spiel Room 10 November - 15 December 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present Spiel Room, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-born-and-based artist Sam Bornstein. The exhibition marks the painter's third solo show with the gallery and his first in the gallery's recently opened second location at 437 Washington Street. Gathering together around 10 new oil paintings, the exhibition continues the artist's combination of biography, fantasy, memory, and imagination to create layered works investigating the twin creative processes of painting and storytelling.Read more -
Sam Bornstein
Variety Lofts 12 March - 7 May 2022Charles Moffett is pleased to present Variety Lofts, New York-based artist Sam Bornstein's second solo exhibition with the gallery. On view from March 12 through April 23, 2022, this will be the inaugural show at 431 Washington Street, the gallery's new ground floor location in Tribeca.Read more -
Artists for NADA
Supporting the NADA Gallery Relief Fund 17 April - 10 May 2020 -
Sam Bornstein
Daydream Workshop 3 November - 22 December 2018Charles Moffett is pleased to present Daydream Workshop, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by New York-based artist Sam Bornstein. The exhibition marks the artist's first solo show in New...Read more
Biography
Sam Bornstein (b. 1983, New York; works in New York. MFA Hunter College 2017, BFA Bard College 2005). Bornstein’s layered figurative paintings evoke an invented world that mirror contemporary life and personal narratives through the filter of the imagined. In alternately luminous and muted light, a variety of characters from New York City, folklore, media, and the collective imaginary coexist in scenes that are familiar, yet resist closed readings. Often portraying multiple figures involved in ambiguous tasks, work, or leisure, his works play with perception of reality and dream states, creating a sense of familiarity that requires the viewer to apply their own experiences in order to complete the narrative. The paintings' tension of material and image often refer back to the act of painting, and recall Postwar and Modernist painters from Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe.
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