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Swedish painter Martin Bornholm and fine arts photographer Eva Sköld Westerlind will have a special reunion at the Swedish American Museum in the spring of 2008 with their exhibition Westerlind-Bornholm: Reflections. The exhibit is the celebration of the 40-year friendship of Bornholm and Westerlind. It is a dream come true for them to exhibit their art together and this exhibition allows them the opportunity to reflect on the last 10 years of growth and development within their individual art and careers.

Martin Bornholm is from SmÃ¥land in the south of Sweden. His first visit to the United States was in the 1960s when he had an exhibition at the Rowayton Art Center in Connecticut. Bornholm's pictures concentrate on close milieu €“ what he observes right in front of his eyes. His recent paintings, made especially for the exhibition in Chicago, are from his home in the old schoolhouse in Aramo village in Sweden.

Eva Sköld Westerlind arrived in the United States over 30 years ago, having completed her field work in a Croatian village for her graduate degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Stockholm. The experience produced her book, Carrying the Farm on Her Back: A Portrait of Women in a Yugoslav Village. Working with a camera to record women's daily life in the village renewed Westerlind's deep interest in photography which led her to later complete a degree in fine art photography at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle where she now lives.