Work samples

  • Prisms
    Prisms

    Prisms is a multi part sculpture that explores geometric form and vivid color in contrast to the natural world. This traveling sculpture can be installed in a multitude of landscapes, creating different connections and meanings.

    For the Art on the Waterfront installation, the sculpture’s triangular forms reference Baltimore’s past and present connection to sailing as a port town. From a distance, the sculpture resembles a fleet of rainbow-hued sailboats, while up close; the viewer can explore and immerse themselves within each form and color.

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  • Choose Your Own Adventure
    Choose Your Own Adventure

    Choose your own Adventure transformed Baltimore’s Charles Street Bridge into a colorful playscape of pedestrian pathways and hanging beach balls. The project was commissioned by Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts for the free 2018 Artscape festival. Spray chalk lines marked a site-based map converging under a forest of beach balls hanging from an open air structure. The streetscape-enhancing project was a collaboration between Baltimore-based public artists Becky Borlan and Graham Coreil-Allen.

  • Tailspin
    Tailspin

    Tailspin is a permanent suspended sculpture created for Marie Reed Elementary school located in Washington DC. The piece was inspired by the yearly kite festival that is held on the grounds of the Washington Monument, which is visible from the school. Made with an aluminum frame, and 21 CNC engraved acrylic kites, the pieces hangs in a two story atrium below a skylight. The artwork measures 26 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 5 feet tall.

  • Symbiosis
    Symbiosis

    Symbiosis was created for the Park School's new science building. The wall sculpture explores the interconnections between art and science, and creates vibrant focal point that energizes the space. 

About Becky

Baltimore-based Becky Borlan is a public artist who produces large-scale works that utilize light and color to spark reverence and wonder. Her installations are playful, vibrant, and whimsical. Applying the curiosity of a child to question everything, she dabbles with lots of different materials, she paints with the very expressive parts of color theory, and loops, bobs, weaves together forms to unite them into a concise and clear invitation to explore without judgment.

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Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose your own Adventure transformed Baltimore’s Charles Street Bridge into a colorful playscape during the city’s 2018 Artscape festival. Spray chalk lines marked a site-based map converging under a forest of beach balls hanging from an open-air structure. The streetscape-enhancing project was a collaboration between Baltimore-based public artists Becky Borlan and Graham Coreil-Allen.

  • Choose Your Own Adventure
    Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
    Choose Your Own Adventure

Color Cascade

A suspended sculpture that spans two floors, Color Cascade’s palette corresponds with Murch Elementary school’s way-finding color scheme: yellow orange denoting the first floor and blue-green on the second. The circular components of the sculpture take inspiration from the surrounding architecture and light fixtures. 

  • Color Cascade
    Color Cascade
  • Color Cascade
    Color Cascade
  • Color Cascade
    Color Cascade

Prisms

Prisms is a 5-piece traveling steel sculpture that celebrates color and form in contrast to the natural environment. The sculpture has since been reinstalled in four locations around Washington DC and Baltimore.


  • Prisms
    Prisms
  • Prisms
    Prisms
  • Prisms
    Prisms

Reverie

Reverie enlivens the 30ft high stairwell in Maury Elementary School’s library. A six foot diameter armature holds 8 cables graduated in length to match the slope of the stair rail. Acrylic shapes dance in midair and catch the morning sunlight from the curtain windows opposite the sculpture. 

  • Reverie
    Reverie
  • Reverie
    Reverie

Tailspin

This permanent suspended work for Marie Reed Elementary in Adams Morgan consists of 21 etched acrylic kites twirling and suspended in midair. The piece was inspired by the annual kite festival held on the National Mall’s Washington Monument. 

  • Tailspin
    Tailspin
  • Tailspin
    Tailspin

Symbiosis

  • Symbiosis
    Symbiosis
  • Symbiosis
    Symbiosis
  • Symbiosis
    Symbiosis