Jennifer Bornstein

At the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Jennifer Bornstein created photogravures from discarded, overlooked and unorganized ephemera from the women's movement: posters, flyers, advertisements, brochures, and newspaper clippings. These photogravures of scraps are presented alongside a group of etchings that weave together a thread of autobiographical content. The final group of prints and photographs represents aspects of the artist’s life over three years: fragments of paper she came across, architectural spaces she spent time in, people she encountered, and a sculpture she made.

Coming from a background of photography, Bornstein turned to printmaking because of its links to the history of image reproduction. In particular, she was attracted to printmaking for its role as a precursor to photography: as one tool on a continuum of media used to record and transmit visual information. Since she began making prints in 2003, Bornstein has used the technique to clarify and articulate subject matter, much as one might make sketches in a notebook.

Jennifer Bornstein (b. 1970) is an artist living in Los Angeles. She works in diverse media including video, 16-millimeter film, photographic processes, and printmaking. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Freund Fellowship (2017); ICA Boston Foster Prize (2017); Radcliffe Fellowship (2014); Harvard University Film Study Center Fellowship (2014-15); DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2008); and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award (1997). Exhibitions of her work include solo shows at the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (2018); the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2012); Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (2009); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); as well as numerous group shows including the Whitney Biennial (2014). 

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