ARTWORK

Boras' works treat with mood-invoking light and color to explore a genre of liminal space. Abandoned places and staples of a bygone, car-centric Americana are depicted in in semi-surrealist fashion. Dark interiors filled with diffuse, artificial light, empty gas stations in the quiet evening hours, lonely roads, with only headlights for beacons; scenes which elicit otherworldliness. The pieces romanticize the uncanny places and things for which we feel a strange nostalgia.

Previous collections include “Women in Colour”, portraits of women set on saturated hues.

THE ARTIST

Born in Calgary, Canada, Emilie Boras pursued a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, at which time she became a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She exhibited in various FCA shows beginning in 2017, alongside a duo show at the Bench Market, Penticton. Since moving to San Francisco she has continued exhibiting with the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto and with the SFWA Gallery in San Francisco.

Ms. Boras’ interest in the automotive and in colorful plays of light center in her work.