Exhibitions, Stories
Vian Borchert’s Fall Season Unfolds Across New York, Washington, and Beyond
By Jennifer McKay
As the Fall 2025 art season opens, abstract expressionist Vian Borchert is charting a distinctly international course. With exhibitions in New York, Washington DC, Madrid, Seoul, and upcoming fairs in Monaco and Osaka, Borchert is extending her reach while refining the themes that have long defined her work: fragility, resilience, and the human condition in flux.
In New York: A Fragile World on View
At Lichtundfire Gallery on the Lower East Side, Borchert is showing a suite of new paintings as part of Gravity Field, a group exhibition curated by Priska Juschka (Sept 5–27). The four works—Broken Bridges, Windows to the Soul, Winds of Change, and On the Edge—present acrylic abstractions in a tight, 24-inch square format.
The series tackles an urgent subject: a world destabilized by war, environmental catastrophe, and social unrest. Borchert’s canvases, with their fractured lines and windows-like portals, suggest both collapse and persistence. In her own words, they are “emotional projectiles” that capture fleeting impressions of turbulence.
One standout, Broken Bridges, renders linear forms that hover between architectural structure and symbolic ruin. The work, Borchert notes, explores “the emotional turbulence caused by unforeseen challenges,” an apt metaphor for a season marked by uncertainty.
In Washington: The Charge of “Electric”
While New York audiences encounter Borchert’s vision of rupture, visitors to FCG Gallery in North Potomac, Maryland, encounter a different kind of charge. Her solo exhibition Electric uses watercolor and acrylic to investigate unseen forces—energy, frequency, emotion—and their imprint on both cities and psyches.
Pieces such as Electrical and Positively Electric depict looming poles and charged atmospheres, evoking electricity as both lifeline and threat. The imagery recalls twilight urban landscapes, structures teetering yet resilient. The duality, Borchert suggests, mirrors the human experience itself: “Electricity, both a force of light and of danger, becomes a metaphor—a dual edged energy shaping our external world and internal states.”
Alongside these, the exhibition includes Borchert’s meditative seascapes and figurative abstractions, extending the inquiry from urban fragility to broader existential terrain.
A Season Abroad: Madrid, Seoul, Monaco, Osaka
Borchert’s Fall 2025 itinerary underscores her international resonance. In Madrid, she recently took part in Shifting Grounds (Sept 1–7) at Occo Gallery, a group exhibition organized by Capital Culture House exploring migration and cultural hybridity.
Earlier, in August, she participated in the BANK Art Fair in Seoul, a high-profile platform for Asian and international collectors. And later this month, she will appear at the ART3F International Contemporary Art Fair in Monte-Carlo (Sept 19–21), followed by the AVA Art Festival in Osaka (Sept 30–Oct 5).
The sequence marks Borchert not only as a Washington- and New York-based painter but as a voice in global abstraction, one whose themes resonate across geographies.
About the Artist
A graduate of the Corcoran College of Art and Design at George Washington University, Borchert has long been known for her lyrical abstraction. Her works have appeared in over 100 exhibitions, including at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, the Venice Biennale, and The SAM Museum in Pennsylvania. She also serves as Art Lead for the Oxford Public Philosophy Journal and teaches in the Washington DC area.
Her paintings, often balancing gestural immediacy with reflective poetics, have been widely published in outlets from The Washington Post to The World Art News. For collectors, Borchert’s works are available through leading platforms including 1stDibs and Artsy.
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