1972 -
Canadian
Scotch Bonnet
ink and gouache on paper
signed and dated 2007 and on verso titled on a label
24 x 18 in, 61 x 45.7 cm
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CAD
Sold for: $5,938
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman, Toronto
LITERATURE
Josée Drouin-Brisebois et al., Otherworld Uprising: Shary Boyle, Conundrum Press, 2008, reproduced page 19
Nancy Campbell, Noise Ghost and Other Stories, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 2016, reproduced page 17, listed page 53
Nancy Campbell, Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work, Art Canada Institute, 2017, reproduced page 28
EXHIBITED
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Shary Boyle: Wonderlust, February 3 - March 3, 2007
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Noise Ghost: Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle, May 28 - August 23, 2009
Shary Boyle’s multidisciplinary practice explores the slippages that occur between imagination, perspectivity, and social history, and is almost always located in depictions of the figure. In mediums such as porcelain sculpture, installation, drawing, and painting, Boyle creates surrealistic worlds that are at once whimsical and slightly creepy, and seem to be set in the heady locales of enchanted forests or vaudeville circuses. Throughout, the figures she depicts are marginalized creatures that seem to be taken from folk myths and fairy tales: busted cartoons and toy dolls, lonely-girl monsters and sad-sack clowns. Baroque, imaginative, and darkly cosmic, her works provoke an excited bewilderment as they open up fissures of beauty and strangeness.
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