Meet the Artist, Borchert, at Popcorn Gallery

Noted artist Vian Borchert's love for nature and the environment is on display in the current Yellow Barn Instructors' group exhibit at the Popcorn Gallery located in Glen Echo Park.

The public is welcome to come by, listen and meet the artist talk about her paintings that are on view at the exhibition. Borchert will talk about her art practice and thoughts behind her art creation. The event is free and open to the public.

The talk is hosted by Glen Echo Park during the ongoing Yellow Barn Instructors' exhibition titled "Yellow Barn Studio Instructors: Painting & Drawing Exhibition 2022" where artist and art educator Vian Borchert is part of. Borchert is an art instructor at Glen Echo Park's Yellow Barn Studio for a decade teaching fine art classes in painting and drawing to adults.

Event : "Artist Talk & Meet and Greet the Artist: Vian Borchert"

On: Saturday November 12 from 2-3 PM
At: Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo Park
Address:
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, MD 20812
Free and open to the public

Borchert's abstracted seascape paintings on display offer a nostalgic and reminiscent look at simpler times. The paintings created during quarantine times, allude to the artist’s fascination with water along presenting the artist's love for the Big Blue. The paintings present and explore the aspects of longing to a space and time that had become part of a memory. Moreover, the paintings showcase a sense of identity of who the artist is: her hopes, aspirations and dreams. The work also plays on the idea of the visible vs. the invisible. The calm water on the surface vs. the deep dark waters that lurk underneath the surface. The paintings are symbolic of the unpredictability of life along with its mysteries. Furthermore, the paintings are executed through an expressive and a painterly style through strong colors and gestural brush strokes, a trademark of the artist's work. Overall, The paintings are metaphoric of a changing time where a return to art seems to bring much needed peace and tranquility.

Vian Borchert is an established expressionist artist. Borchert has exhibited extensively in exhibitions within the US and internationally. Vian is a graduate and "Notable Alumni" from the Corcoran College of Art & Design George Washington University, Washington, DC. Borchert exhibits in museums and key galleries in major cities such as NYC, LA, London and the DMV area. Borchert had her artwork exhibited in prestigious venues like The SAM Museum, Times Square - Broadway Plaza, United Nations Lobby Gallery in NYC, Art Basel Miami Beach, 1stDibs Design Center in Chelsea, NYC. Her artwork is also in embassies and in private collections worldwide. Borchert describes her expressionist artwork as a form of visual poetry. Besides being an artist and an educator, Borchert is also an award winning poet and has extensive knowledge of art history due to her education and working in world-class museums. Borchert’s art has been vastly featured in press like MOEVIR Paris Fashion & Art Magazine, ARTPIL, The Washington Post, Modern Renaissance Magazine and Vie magazine. Borchert is an art educator in the DMV area teaching fine art classes in painting and drawing to adults at Glen Echo Park’s Yellow Barn Studio. Besides exhibiting in galleries, Borchert’s artwork can be found at auction houses and luxury marketplaces “Artsy” and “1stDibs”. www.vianborchert.com

Borchert will be teaching Winter semester art classes at Glen Echo Park and the Yellow Barn Studio - The educator's upcoming offerings can be viewed at this link: www.vianborchert.com/classes

Event and Exhibit details: https://www.vianborchert.com/e...