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January 18 - February 7, 2002

Roger Boyce

 

The Chazan Gallery @ Wheeler will be presenting Iconometry,
a show of paintings by Roger Boyce from January 18 through February 7, 2002.


There will be an opening reception on Friday, January 18 from 5 - 7 PM. The public is invited.

 

Boyce's latest body of work, Iconometry, is composed of large pigment on linen paintings that deal with light and historical depictions of light. Inspired by Buddhist wall, screen, and scroll paintings, Boyce interprets their use of light in relation to divine figures and composes luminous semiabstract paintings with layered and exfoliated surfaces. With Iconometry, Boyce's ambition is that the paintings "judiciously revisit and acknowledge non-western visual prescriptions, which informed modernist abstract painting, while attempting to fuse the archetypal heat of traditional sacred painting with the cooler, measured tendencies of contemporary abstraction."

Roger Boyce received his MFA in painting from the University of California in Santa Barbara and has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris. He has exhibited at the Sao Paulo Bienal and his awards include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and Mid-Atlantic Foundation, NEA. Boyce contributes writing to the New Art Examiner and Art New England and teaches painting at Smith College.