The first solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist George Boorujy. The exhibition will consist of a collection of paintings based on an imagined human culture that has come and gone.

Reflecting upon his background in the study of marine biology, most of Boorujy’s work shows his interest in wildlife and how people relate to the nature world. How we perceive it, change it, and are affected by it. He represents human being seeing themselves clearly as animals within the scheme; animals that drive some species into extinction, bring others back from the verge, stop the rivers, flatten mountains, and indeed alter the very climate of our world.

In this exhibition, Lost World, viewers are introduced to the possible scenarios Boorujy imagined: building left to rot, areas of human habitation re-colonized by animals, and a new emerging culture. Depicting the subject in such a realistic manner and leaving the background blank, he expresses a feeling of separation and emptiness of the world, meanwhile, revealing the significance of our existence and its relation to the nature.

George Boorujy received a MFA from School of Visual Arts in 2002. His work has been shown at Exit Art in New York as a part of group exhibition “Reactions” and was most recently on display at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn (Group Show “Fifteen Places”) and CRG Gallery in New York (Group Show “Greater Brooklyn”) in 2005. He was born in New Jersey and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.