Shary Boyle "Ouroboros" 2006
SWOON. Shary Boyle's gorgeously disturbing porcelain sculptures are an opium dream come true. They remind me a bit of the bizarre custom doll culture I discovered lurking in Japan when I traveled there in 2005; Boyle's sculptures are like Obitsu parts gone mad. I love her paintings and drawings as well, so be sure to check those out, too.
I believe it was Shary Boyle speaking along with a couple of other artists on a PA to the people sitting near the food court at the Toronto International Art Fair when I visited it last fall. She walking about how she feels working alone vs. when she does the projection drawings.
Her sculpture was the first work of hers that I had noticed, in an art magazine. When I looked up her site, I found her drawing way more robust looking than I had expected from looking at the sculpture. The heavy lines and bold colours
suprised me. I had expected it to look more like Hans Belmer or something, I suppose. Then looking back at the sculpture, the drawing made me see past the elegance of form to the underlying forcefullness of technique she uses. It made the ceramic look less delicate to me, which is something to pull off! Her formal dialogue between elegant and naive reflects her subject matter very effectively.
Charles Vincent
www.charlesvincent.ca
Posted by: Charles Frederick Vincent | January 27, 2007 at 02:33 PM
I mean "was talking" not "walking" ha ha!
Posted by: Charles Frederick Vincent | January 27, 2007 at 10:02 PM