Robert Bordo’s solo exhibition at Foreland, now still then, presents two bodies of work; a survey of postcard paintings (2000 - 2022), alongside a series of new paintings entitled Les Lucioles (French for fireflies). These series formulate a dialogue between past and present and showcase the artist’s multifarious ways of painting his varied yet interwoven subjects. A level of anxiety and humor permeates Bordo’s work; his paintings convey the illogic of the psychological. Employing imagery that is both existential and emotional, intentionally personal and outward facing, his work broadly addresses issues that concern us all, whether it be individual neurosis or the political climate writ large. He has lived and worked in upstate New York since 2000 where the bucolic environs, artistic community, and back and forth from the city has provided fodder for his work for the last two decades.