About the artist:
Silas Borsos responds to life through a painting process that is impressionistic, serial, and studied. Most often at a small scale, the artist makes oil on linen paintings with a restrained, humble palette and deft brushwork. In these artworks, he turns his eye to compositions made of fruit, engaging the long shadow of the still life genre and its inherent allegories. As if directing actors on a stage, Borsos composes his fruit in myriad arrangements, eliciting anthropomorphism as associations get formed. The resulting mise-en-scène inflects the subject matter—and the still life genre overall—with both reverence and wit, insisting on the pure sweetness of painting.
Silas Borsos was born in 1989 in Toronto, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture in New York, NY (2020).
Boros has been included in exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York, NY; Beak 585 Gallery in Osaka, Japan; Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects in New York, NY; and Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY.
He is a 2023 recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
Specs:
In these artworks, the artist turns his eye to compositions made of fruit, engaging the long shadow of the still life genre and its inherent allegories. As though directing actors on a stage, Borsos composes his fruit in myriad arrangements, eliciting anthropomorphism as associations get formed. The resulting mise-en-scène inflects the subject matter—and the still life genre overall—with both reverence and wit, insisting on the pure sweetness of painting.More
- Framed: 11.2 x 20.2 in.
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