The Town Courier
The Town Courier published an article Vian Borchert's Expressionist Art Reveals the World Within in their November 2013 edition.
Lines are gestural and you can feel the artist’s
application of paint to the canvas. The figure engages you in a conversation
that you can, perhaps, almost hear. What she is talking about and feeling
intrigues and breaks through the two-dimensions of canvas.
Read more at The Town Courier, November, 2013
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The Gazette
Potomac Almanac
Washington Examiner
The Washington Examiner, December 2012.
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Wikipedia
Referenced in Wikipedia to Vian Shamounki Borchert's article about Roy Lichtenstein.
Although many sources, such as the Encyclopedia of
Art, describe Whaam! and Drowning Girl as Lichtenstein's most famous works,
artist Vian Shamounki Borchert believes it is this piece, calling it his
Mona Lisa.
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Modern Luxury Magazine
Featured in the October, 2012 issue of "Modern Luxury"
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
NPR's Art Beat
NPR’s ‘Art Beat’ With Sean Rameswaram, Mar. 26, 2012
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
Huffington Post
The Weekend Guide of the Huffington Post March, 2012.
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
Washington Post
The Washington Post featuring "Andy Warhol" by Vian Borchert.
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
Washington Post
The Washington Post featuring "Holy City" by Vian Borchert.
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The Town Courier
Art article in The Town Courier, March 2011
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
Artists Speak
Interview in Artists Speak, February 2011
Copyright © Vian Shamounki Borchert
Gaithersburg Patch
The Gaithersburg Patch published an interview with Vian in the article Three Local Artists at
Kentlands Mansion.
I want to create an intimate, deep and thought-provoking
dialogue between the audience and the artwork. In simple words, my artwork has
to speak on its own and grab the viewer’s attention in an intellectual way
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Gazette Net
Gaithersburg Patch
"Most of her paintings are large in scale, and her mysteriously austere figures and portraits command a certain level of gravitas and inspire inquiry into the human psyche."
Gaithersburg Patch article, December 2010
Gaithersburg Patch article, December 2010
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MC Insight
"...I don't do sketches of how I want the end result to look. I like to surprise myself. I always tell my students that drawing is the basis of any good painting, but I don’t do my drawings in a sketchbook first. I use my brushes to sketch right on the canvas..."
Art article featured in MC Insight Magazine, 2007
Art article featured in MC Insight Magazine, 2007
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