K Imperial Fine Art is pleased to announce Elements of Day, an exhibition of new paintings by Gina Borg, on view from March 22nd through April 30th.
With her new body of work, Borg works between transitions of light and dark, and subtle gradations of a singular hue while investigating what she calls: “the forces of nature that shift our experience.”
Drawing from traditions of minimalism, geometric abstraction and her own light and perception studies, Borg’s paintings are reductive, yet poetic. While mostly abstract, these paintings reference the natural world and the forces therein, the result of “my years of studying nature through paint,” says Borg.
The work in Elements of Day tests the boundaries of vision and perception through process-driven experimentation with color, light and incremental shifts. Limiting herself to the tones and temperatures of just a few hues allows a very steady narrative of color and light to unfold on the canvas. Of her process, Borg says: “I give myself parameters against which I can work, breaking down and mutating the tones and temperatures of just a few colors, in order to better understand the perception of light.” The paintings are the nuanced, tactile remnants of slowing down the speed of perception and her investigation into how light dissolves boundaries.
Gina Borg (b.1973- ) is a painter who lives and works in Oakland, California. Her work has been shown in solo exhibits at Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles and Jancar Jones Gallery in San Francisco, and has been included in many group exhibits including De-Mobbing; Landscape, Structure, Bioform at Headlands Center for the Arts, Afterglow, first shown at Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California and now travelling to universities around the state, and Temples of Transition at Gallery Extraña in Berkeley. Her work is included in numerous private collections as well as the collection of the Alameda County Arts Commission. Born in Sacramento, California, Borg attended the MFA program in painting at Boston University and received her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
K Imperial Fine Art is located in 49 Geary on the 4th floor. The artist reception for Elements of Day will be Thursday, April 5th from 5 – 7 pm.
For more information or to preview the work please contact the gallery at (415) 277-7230 or aimee(at)kimperialfineart(dot)com .
