Shary Boyle
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Dale, 2004 Oil on panel | Untitled, 2007 Untitled, 2007
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Untitled 11, 2007
Oil on board
| Untitled, 2004 Polymar clay and gouache
| Untitled, 2003 Pencil and gouache on paper
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Shary Boyle currently lives and works in Toronto, though her career has involved travel and residencies in several European countries. Boyle is a performance artist, sculptor and painter as well as a filmmaker. She has become known for the deeply personal and psychologically moving content of her imagery, which recalls the anxieties, desire and bittersweet fantasy worlds of childhood and adolescence. Critical, enchanting and at times humorous, Boyle's work is raw with human vulnerability and dysfunction. Boyle's graphic novel Witness my Shame, a compendium of 16 mini-books she created between 1997 and 2001, was published in 2004. Boyle also collaborates with musicians, creating "live" drawings, which are animated and projected onstage during their performances. She has worked with Peaches at the Sonic Youth-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Los Angeles and most recently performed in 2005 with Feist at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris. In 2006, her work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Power Plant, Toronto, as well as with work by Daniel Barrow, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby in Fantasia, at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.
Recently, a collection of Shary Boyle’s polymer clay miniature sculptures was featured at The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo. Shary is currently living in London, England, in a residency at Space Studios, awarded by the Canada Council’s International Studio Program. Upon her return in fall 2007, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge is mounting a comprehensive touring exhibition of Boyle’s multi-disciplinary practice (November 2007). This exhibition will be accompanied by a book on Shary Boyle’s art, with an essay by National Gallery of Canada Curator of Contemporary Art Josée Drouin-Brisebois, published by Conundrum Press, Montreal in association with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Shary Boyle has been chosen as a finalist for the Sobey Art Award. A national curatorial panel has selected five finalists, one from each of the five regions, for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank.
Exhibitions
Fantasia: Barrow, Boyle, Duke & Battersby
Shary Boyle: Wonderlust
SILENCE, LIMITED