Works
  • Sam Bornstein, Chord Organ, 2023
    Sam Bornstein
    Chord Organ, 2023
    Oil and mixed media on linen
    14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Electric Dove and Electric Homing Pigeon, 2023
    Sam Bornstein
    Electric Dove and Electric Homing Pigeon, 2023
    Oil and mixed media on linen
    24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Night Train, 2022
    Sam Bornstein
    Night Train, 2022
    Oil, acrylic ink and airbrush on linen
    24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Theater Sleepers and Rabbi, 2022
    Sam Bornstein
    Theater Sleepers and Rabbi, 2022
    Oil, acrylic ink and airbrush on linen
    24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Beach Blanket with Soldiers and Child, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Beach Blanket with Soldiers and Child, 2019
    Airbrush, acrylic and oil on canvas
    48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Counter Transference, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Counter Transference, 2019
    Screen print, airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Desktop Worker (Ban Bela), 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Desktop Worker (Ban Bela), 2019
    Screen print, airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Doctor, Patient, Painter, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Doctor, Patient, Painter, 2019
    Airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Eastern Parkway Fantasy, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Eastern Parkway Fantasy, 2019
    Airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Falling Reaper, Falling Sower, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Falling Reaper, Falling Sower, 2019
    Airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Green Room, 2019
    Sam Bornstein
    Green Room, 2019
    Airbrush, acrylic and oil on panel
    24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
  • Sam Bornstein, Ruins Party Photographer, 2018
    Sam Bornstein
    Ruins Party Photographer, 2018
    Oil, acrylic, screenprint and airbrush on canvas
    40 x 36 in (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Exhibitions
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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