Mindy | 
07 16th, 2010| 
Anyone who’s spent a little time in Boston, taking in the rich cultural scene that characterizes the city today, may have seen some rather fetching masks in some of the live performance work. There are many local and national theater companies who pick up works from a company called Behind the Mask . It’s been featured in Opera and Dance works, as well as at the Cambridge River Fest. Some of the more detailed works have been displayed in places as illustrious as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Children’s Museum , and the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum .
These are works by a local mask maker named Eric Bornstein . He’s well-studied, having earned a master’s from Harvard in art history, and has been making masks since 1982. His innovative work is one of the things that inspires travelers to look into the hotel rates Boston offers, because it’s artists like this that make it such an interesting town.
His work is exceptionally illustrative of a local aesthetic, if there can be said to be such a thing, by tying the very personal to the international. Drawing on his own experience, and coupling that with training from mask centers of the world in Bali and Italy, the work becomes a reflection of many worlds, and all of them live simultaneously in this one city.
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