Greg Borman

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, making art and spending nights at a cavernous punk club in Kentucky. I left after receiving my BFA from the University of Cincinnati. Since then, I have called the San Francisco Bay Area home, seeing it change from arts-friendly to tech-driven. I received my MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, where I focused on painting. Since 2019, I have focused on the exploration of printmaking, specifically monotypes. The direct, painterly nature of the medium leads to work getting done quickly, an approach that works well for me.

I create evidence of human presence in each image that I make. Humans are represented in a bare-bones way – sometimes just a face. I intend to get to the essence of representations of people. As my approach is largely instinctive, each work is filled with imagery and associations directly from my subconscious.

Drawing with altered Q-tips, brushes, and rags into ink rolled onto Plexiglas has helped to get me in touch with the process of making images, and I trust that years of exposure to and making of art will lead to a few successful prints on any given day.