Eli Bornstein CM SOM (born December 28, 1922) is an American-born Canadian artist and teacher who has spent most of his life in Saskatchewan, Canada.
He is known for his contributions to abstract art in Canada through his creation of three-dimensional artworks he called Structurist Reliefs.
[2] He began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Art in 1950, travelling between Saskatoon and Madison, Wisconsin where he was earning a master's degree in graphic techniques.
[2] Bornstein's early drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures used abstract and cubist techniques to depict nature.
In 1956 he won a commission from the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation to make an abstract welded aluminum sculpture named "Growth Motif".
[4] In 1960, Bornstein founded The Structurist, a journal that appears annually or biannually with each edition devoted to a particular theme.
[2] He says that in color they have roots in Claude Monet and the impressionists, and in form they derive from the work of Paul Cézanne, Kazimir Malevich and cubism.
[4] In 1964 his massive frieze named Structural Relief in Fifteen Parts was installed in the Richardson Airport terminal in Winnipeg, Canada.