Mary A. Boyd
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About the Artist Mary A. Boyd
In my art I want the media used (graphite, ink, charcoal, acrylics; porcelain and high fire variable glazes) to be obvious and interesting in and of themselves. In two dimensional figurative art (drawings or paintings), I am interested in stimulating narrative speculation in the viewer. History is not what happened or happens, history is the stories we tell ourselves and others; and the stories change.
Most of the work I have been making recently are continuing explorations of the tension between, and conflicting impulses toward, chaos and order, whether in human relationships, communities or in variable glazes on porcelain forms.
In 2010 I decided to begin formal art education for the first time and see how that changes me as an artist. Two results obvious in the first year is a shift away from ceramics to two dimensional media, and a fascination of working with the simplest media on paper.
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