Eli Bornowsky & Yu Nishimura Exhibition

King's Leap

[Image: Eli Bornowsky "Isogonal25_D41mod17" (2020) egg tempera, gesso, muslin, baltic birch 30 x 30 in. ]

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An excerpt from Alan Longino’s exhibition essay:

“…Whether a painting and its picture take on the visual presence of geometry and its inherent abstraction, or a painter take on the qualities of the figure and portrait, the process of their pursuit is rooted in the same language that cannot be spoken but only renewed. As information becomes more and more surplus, the images and pictures created demand a higher sense of identification and recognition. And, it is not only the public that demands the immediate identification and authentication of the artist, but technologies of deep-learning and AI that rely on annotation and set parameters to identify a form and its relationships. This increase of identification from parties both human and non-human progresses even further the re-establishment of beauty as a primary desire within pictures.
While some scholars would argue that a participation in politics is necessary for forming an avant-garde identity, it remains all the more important today that beauty—and the pursuit of beauty—be central to the political program of the arts. I believe that this constant redefinition of the program helps not only resist against permanent identification and classification—which only adds to authority and power—but increases the abilities of human understanding and bonding that feels forever political.”

Eli Bornowsky (b. 1980) is an artist based in New York and Vancouver. Over the last ten years, Bornowsky has shown extensively in Canada. He received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. Recent solo and group exhibitions include White Columns Online (New York, NY), Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby, Canada), Canton Sardine (Vancouver, Canada), and Unit 17 (Vancouver Canada). Bornowsky will be in a group show this summer at KAYOKOYUKI Gallery (Tokyo, Japan).

Yu Nishimura (b. 1982) is a painter living and working in Kanagawa, Japan. Nishimura recently staged solo exhibitions at KAYOKOYUKI Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) and Galerie Crèvecoeur (Paris, France), both in 2020. Selected recent exhibitions include The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan), Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hongo, (Tokyo, Japan), Gallery Vacancy (Shanghai, China), and Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago, IL), amongst others.