Expressionist Vian Borchert considers her paintings to be visual poems, ... created during the pandemic and reflecting on a new reality and a new normal.

many of her latest paintings for this show were produced during quarantine and Coronavirus times, as she reflects on our new reality and our new normal.

Vian Borchert’s abstract “BlueWaves” evokes some wide expanse and fascinating unknown in oceanic, cerulean hues.

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many of her latest paintings for this show were produced during quarantine and Coronavirus times, as she reflects on our new reality and our new normal.

In some paintings, viewers will see a yearning for future adventures that Borchert aspires to explore, as well as contemplative pieces inspired by nature, inner peace and finding Zen in trying times.

The bold gestural strokes barely contained within Vian Borchert’s paintings dramatically seize upon that instant when the day’s blue skies fall to the coming night.

Vian Borchert suggest worlds beyond themselves, creating as well a feeling of fathomless depth. The resulting psychological and spiritual resonance is akin to an imaginative experience that is at once expansive, boundless and oceanic.

The bold gestural strokes barely contained within Vian Borchert’s paintings dramatically seize upon that instant when the day’s blue skies fall to the coming night.

Vian’s art has been on exhibit in prestigious places such as the United Nations General Assembly’s Public Lobby Gallery, NYC, in “Art Basel Miami Beach”at Spectrum Miami, and the LA Art Show

Described by the artist as “visual poems,” Borchert’s work offers eye-catching abstract forms that can stir an art lover’s intuition.

Vian’s art has been exhibited in prestigious places such as the gallery of the public hall of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, in “Art Basel Miami Beach” at the Spectrum Miami.

Vian attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. (now part of George Washington University). One of her professors at the Corcoran, the late Tom Green, reviewed her portfolio and gave her a scholarship.

Vian Borchert's expressive paintings with strong colors and vigorous application of paint are descriptive "visual poems" - her distinct choice of color resonates, both gently and strongly, personal affinity, feelings and mood.

Pink Horizon (2019) by Vian Borchert is much more clearly a landscape. On the left side, we see a glass blue and white diagonal area, separated from a white blue strip by a black stripe. On the upper half of the diagonal, there is a series of roughly painted blue and whites, which leads upward, to a dark gray and pink horizon painted on a horizontal bar. This is a composition that leans in the direction of abstraction, but the sense of a place is very much clear. The colors do lend themselves to the feeling that we are in the midst of a winter wonderland, but the painting’s raw manner and its inchoate forms emphasizes the act of painting as much as it does an actual place.

The exhibition's title also connotes a potential dystopia, as a result of climate change, evoking the unsettling feeling that nothing will remain the same, and that soon we will nostalgically reflect upon the time when winter was still a substantial and lived experience in our lives.

Vian Borchert’s expressionist paintings, descriptive “visual poems” with a distinct choice of color, resonate, both gently and strongly, her personal affinity, feelings and mood.