ANDREW BOROWIEC : INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES

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Andrew Borowiec
53 works
Book "Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast" available
50 gelatin silver prints, 8" x 16"
3 gelatin silver prints, 16" x 40"

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Andrew Borowiec is known for his exploration of the social landscape of the communities that developed around America's leading industrial regions. In this work, Borowiec moves from the communities to the industrial facilities and the natural areas they displace and mirror. The pure engineering of the industrial facility is not in simple opposition to the natural world; instead there is dynamic equilibrium, where each shares traits of the other. Vast piles of coal seem like glorious mini-mountains, a junkyard road becomes a flowing river, its banks tangled with twisted metal bushes, and a cluster of trees leans in remorse ñ or sympathy? ñ with distant billows of smoke. Borowiec's photographs are startling in their appreciation of the artificial beauty of these industrial sites, yet rich in their natural sympathy, providing a ray of hope to what might otherwise seem a bleak perspective.

Currently a professor at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, Borowiec has been widely exhibited and is represented in numerous collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and many grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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