Gail Peter Borden

Region: West

 My work investigates the relationship between material and process. Form and method are founded in the means by which a thing is made; my work is founded in a synthetic vision of the experiential and perceptual nature of art through the rational tectonics of formal systems.

Focused on the relationship of the part to holistic form via spatial and effectual perception, my work uses material abstraction to produce a sensorial effect. Simplicity of form and articulation removes ornament and establishes order. The clarity of geometric, prismatic, and perspectival forms provides an essentialism. Through their reduction, form, proportion, material, and color engage primal perception; through the less, we find more. The resulting forms emerge from type and variant, gradation of color, and modular dimensionality to create visually understandable conditions. Through series, the variations of open structures allow for multi-directional understanding that requires movement through space, sequential vision, memory, and relativism of our body to the form and space, place and time.