FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STEPHANIE BORNS

New Paintings

January 31 - February 26, 1997

The Charles Cowles Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Stephanie Borns from January 31 through February 26, 1997. The Gallery is located at 420 West Broadway and the hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10am until 6pm. The artist will be at the Gallery on Saturday, February 1st, from 4-6pm.

This will be the first exhibition of work by Stephanie Borns at the Charles Cowles Gallery. A gifted draftswoman, Borns renders objects and figures with deft and fluid brushstrokes, and is able to create powerfully allegoric images utilizing only a simple palette of earth tones and generally spare compositions. Borns' work is very introspective and self-referential, inspired by her decade of work for social justice, her experience in Divinity School, and her Jewish background. The artist states of her paintings:

They are visual Midrash, interpretations of stories that have puzzled and disturbed me

since childhood. At another level, they are quite contemporary and personal explorations

of vulnerability, suffering and the possibility of transformation. They are about

witnessing and experiencing horror, and still continuing. They ask whether it is possible

to continue; whether it is possible, perhaps, even to transcend.

Stephanie Borns, who lives and paints in Boston, has shown her work extensively in the Boston area. Since 1991, she has exhibited at the DeCordova Museum, the Fitchburg Museum, the Provincetown Art Center and Museum, and the Boston Center for the Arts. Outside of the area, Borns has been shown at the Drawing Center in New York and Marguerite Oestricher Fine Arts in New Orleans.

For further information or photographs please call (212) 925-3500.