PIECES OF A SOUL
An Exhibition by Rosemary Broton Boyle
Exhibition Dates: September 16 – September 27
Location: Provincetown Commons
46 Bradford Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Opening Reception
Friday, September 18
5 PM – 7 PM
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Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Artist Statement:
Art is not psychology. Art is not illustration. Art is consequence.
I love to push paint around. I’m not really interested in any kind of morality in painting or teaching anybody anything. If someone sees any commentary in my work it is their interpretation. What I do is for myself, an arrangement of dark and light, composing lyrically with the pigments, the textures and the resulting forms. My paintings are about my state of mind. Totally lucid but non-rational. I am not comfortable with the term “abstract” in describing my work because it implies the manipulation of an existing structure or object. I rather like to consider my paintings contemporary artifacts of sorts. Souvenirs of an inward journey, having a unique vocabulary, with no conclusions, just conversations. My purpose, simply stated, is that I have none other than the process itself, standing alone as a means of contemplation and not as a mirror.
However, for the sake of the viewer and to quote Aldous Huxley “Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form theories.” But if there are beauty truths to be formed then the best that anyone can do is to hold space for that which is hard to define, utilizing open ended, responsive forms in the way that a parent holds the space for a child to play and to experience the world. This body of work illustrates that the real subject running through it is playfulness founded in the magic and mystery of the poetic experience.
Artist Bio:
Rosemary Broton Boyle is a visual artist specializing in Painting and 3D wall sculpture working at studios in the Boston and North Truro areas. The recipient of a Fullbright Fellowship she received her BFA from Syracuse University And her MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. She’s taught Art and Art History for 18 years in both the high school and college levels. Her work is included in the collections of Neiman Marcus, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fidelity Investments, Suffolk University, Syracuse University, Liberty Mutual, St Elizabeths Hospital among many other businesses, law firms, restaurants and resorts.
She has exhibited her work in a multitude of venues including Audrey Pepper Gallery/Boston, Carson /Masouoka Gallery in Denver CO, Rice Pollack and the Oz Gallery/ Provincetown, Mass Art Boston, The Museum School/Boston, The Sequoia Collection in Santa Fe, NM, Attleboro Museum, PAM/Ptown, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Art 3/NH, Jules Place/Boston , The Shillkamp Gallery At Clark University, St. Botophs Club/Boston, Kobalt Gallery, The Newton Art Center, Cambridge Art Association and the Concord Art Association. She is also represented in a myriad of residential collections.
Rosemary has also traveled extensively all over the world. Included in her travels she attended an encaustic workshop in Malaga, Spain. She studied art and language at the University of Kracow, in Poland and twice ventured to the Santa Raparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy to study printmaking.
