SHARY BOYLE: THE CAVE

Shary Boyle Bat 4, 2008 Porcelain, unique mounted on fabric, Approx 10 x 10 inches / 25.5 x 25. 5 cm overall	Shary Boyle Wicked Witch of the East, 2009 Porcelain, unique (detail_ approx. 12 inches/ 30.5 cm diameter	Shary Boyle Lovers, 2009 Porcelain, unique 2 parts, approx. 12 x 12 inches/30.5 x 30.5 overall
Shary Boyle Our Ancestors' Concern, 2009 Chalk pastel on paper 28 x 23 ¼ inches / 71 x 59 cm	Shary Boyle Folk Fashion 3, 2007 Chalk pastel on paper 21 ¾ x 18 ¼ / 55 x 46.5 cm

HELD OVER THROUGH SATURDAY APRIL 4th

The Cave, Shary Boyle’s second solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, features new porcelain sculptures and pastel drawings. The title of this exhibition alludes to Boyle’s interest in the vast and fantastical variety of bats in the world, and their recent decline as a signal of impending ecological catastrophe. Characteristically, these pieces embody a finely tuned balance between the grotesque and seductive beauty. Other works in the exhibition include a recent series of pastel portrait drawings.
Over the past decade Boyle has become known for the psychologically moving content of her imagery. Critical and enchanting, her work encompasses several media linked less by a unifying style than by the themes that recur throughout the fascinating universe she has created. Curator Ben Portis writes, “Boyle is anything but categorical. For all her deep plunges into the particularities of form, style and technique, it is her specificity of feelings that prompts her to move from one idea to another. And it is her ability to translate her enigmatic emotions into something palpable that unifies her uniquely diverse and compelling work.”
In addition to her production in drawing, painting and sculpture, Boyle has performed her live drawing projection performances in the past year at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and at the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. The AGO commissioned two major porcelain works unveiled for the opening of the new Frank Gehry building last November. These pieces, made in response to two Italian Baroque bronzes on mythological themes,are currently on view in the ground floor galleries of historical European art.
Boyle’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario and several other public institutions, as well as in private collections across Canada, the United States and Europe.

Artists:
Shary Boyle