May 2012
ALEXIS BOYLE
Emotional Monsters / Paintings & Mixed Media
May 4 – 27, 2012 Vernissage Friday May 4 – 27, 2012
Please come meet the artist, who will be in attendance on opening night, from Toronto.
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Statement: Alexis Boyle is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary MFA at OCAD University in Toronto. Her practice is widespread and includes textile structures, public interventions, wearables, performance, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Her work documents carefully-observed sensations and vulnerabilities by emphasizing sensory orifices, and mapping exchanges of information between bodies and environments.
The Emotional Monsters painting series can be seen to act as way-losing and way-finding devices that trace feelings and experiences through lived and dreamed disasters and denials. Boyle’s paintings hint at the singularity and plurality of the human experience, revealed through deliberate explorations of form, texture, colour, and line that stack up to an entire being of accumulated experience—a catastrophe somehow. Negotiating the space between inspiration and devastation, this body of work explores sexuality, isolation, and participation; people, plants and animals. Boyle’s fascination with natural phenomena such as zombie-ants and star-nosed moles is straddled by less linear information gathered from her dreams. These paintings are about navigating physical, social, and psychic terrains by way of the senses. Relationships are explored like landscapes and landscapes like relationships.