Andrew Bordwin is a mid career artist working in a variety of photo-based
mediums. He works with Adam Ames in a collaborative team called Type A on
performance video projects, and he also works independently.
During the mid 1990s he pioneered early color digital printing, exploiting the abstractions of enlarged pixels in a series on suburban architecture. Accident and adventure play a big part in his work. Bordwin is also a highly refined architectural photographer who carries out commercial assignments with great skill and precision.
In 1991 Bordwin was commissioned to create a small series on New York architecture in black and white. He found beautifully crafted details in metal, wood and stone on New York's great Art Deco buildings including Rockefeller Center, the Chanin Building, the Chrysler building and many others. As photographs, the images are transformed into bold and monumental forms, beautifully printed as silver prints in 20 x 24" and 30 x 40". The project grew to include other New York architectural images, and he assigned the name Empty City to that series, which now numbers over fifty works. Recently, a commission for the new Queen Mary II has allowed him to expand the series to incorporate a series on London's Deco architecture.
During the mid 1990s he pioneered early color digital printing, exploiting the abstractions of enlarged pixels in a series on suburban architecture. Accident and adventure play a big part in his work. Bordwin is also a highly refined architectural photographer who carries out commercial assignments with great skill and precision.
In 1991 Bordwin was commissioned to create a small series on New York architecture in black and white. He found beautifully crafted details in metal, wood and stone on New York's great Art Deco buildings including Rockefeller Center, the Chanin Building, the Chrysler building and many others. As photographs, the images are transformed into bold and monumental forms, beautifully printed as silver prints in 20 x 24" and 30 x 40". The project grew to include other New York architectural images, and he assigned the name Empty City to that series, which now numbers over fifty works. Recently, a commission for the new Queen Mary II has allowed him to expand the series to incorporate a series on London's Deco architecture.
New York Deco 1991-1993 [view images]
Empty City 1991-1997 [view images]
London 2003 [view images]