ALLISON BOROFF STRINGS

Merging portraiture with abstraction is my personal interest and focus of exploration. I like to blur the lines between realism and abstraction through gestural mark-making that is inspired by my choice of medium. In this piece, I add string to transform the three illustrations into a three-dimensional installation that interacts with the space it is displayed in. A theme that pops up in a lot of my work is the interconnectivity of objects, people, and spaces. I like to show this idea through leaving figures transparent and allowing them to breathe the material into their forms, as if they were alive for a moment on the paper. I also enjoy playing with ideas of line weight and physical weight with material and drawing the eye from one portion of the composition to another in a fluid manner. Another way I draw the eyes around the canvas is through color placement and arrangement transition my warm palette into pockets of cool tones to balance the composition and provide relief from the glowing warm tones throughout the piece.