ABOUT

Meghan Borah’s expressionless, female-presenting figures occupy dreamlike scenarios that may not be tranquil as they first appear. Their faces appear aloof and almost impatient, suggesting the presence of some type of negotiation between the public, outward facade and private inner longings. In this way Borah’s paintings are an ongoing examination of how we see and present ourselves, and how we may sometimes ache to become something else.

The series Girls and Horses broaches a specific trope—that of the female rider on horseback— and yet does so with Borah’s customary lightness, delicateness, and ambiguity. Primarily, Borah offers simple, frontal depictions of a girl on an equine mount, an image drawn from a long practice of sketching. The composition’s spatial qualities, however, resist categorization: in canvases such as Girl and Horse with Pink Flowers (2023) or Girl and Horse with Fireflies (2023), the woman’s feet brush and seem to rest upon the edge of the canvas, and the horse’s body becomes a kind of dress, a continuation of the rider.

Meghan Borah is a painter and educator based in Chicago. Borah received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from the Painting and Drawing department in 2017. She is currently represented by Galleri Urbane (Dallas) and Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago). Her work has been featured in Patron Magazine, Chicago Magazine, Time Out Chicago, New American Paintings and ArtSlant. She has been the recipient of numerous artist residencies programs including the Vermont Student Center in 2018. Borah’s work was selected to showcase her work on Platform, produced by David Zwirner.

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