biography
I have an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Washington, and am retired from a teaching career at Fullerton College. I founded the printmaking program there and taught life drawing, printmaking and color theory. While teaching, I maintained studios in Fullerton and Los Angeles and exhibited widely in Southern California. For a decade beginning in 1985, I was active as a photographer of dance and performance art in Los Angeles, and in subsequent years concentrated on creating digital composites of my photographs and drawings. Since moving back to the Central Coast, my work has been featured in solo shows in San Luis Obispo at the S.L.O. Museum of Art, the GALA Center, and the Steynberg Gallery, as well as in Atascadero at the B-W Gallery.
contact: nborah@mac.com
web: n-borah.com
I fell in love with printmaking while working with Glen Alps, pioneer of the collagraph, at the University of Washington. Printmaking involves thinking in layers and sequences of process; that mental discipline served me well when I began devloping original images in the computer and printing them using inkjet printers. Recently i have returned to the more tactile pleasures of working with metals, acids, inks and press-bed felts. I am open to exploring all techniques that facilitate imaginative image making.
Regardless of medium or technique, my work focuses on celebrating human experience through a collage of associations from observation and memory. I approach subject matter as if I were a choreographer of filmmaker, but one whose goal is a static tableau.