ARTIST / Artist, Residency
THEODORE BOYER
THEODORE BOYER
Theodore Boyer (b. 1983, Los Angeles, California) completed his BFA in 2012 at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he studied under renowned artists Jack Whitten, Alice Aycock, Sue Williams and Andrea Belag. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
His painting and sculptural practice navigates a wide range of subjects and materials: a formal examination of identity and belonging. A multimedia merger of motifs offers a vehicle for personal revelations via investigations in cartography, astrology, astronomy, anthropology and mysticism.
Boyer’s research in science—and pseudoscience—provides a narrative framework for further investigations into color: the grounding focus of Boyer’s oeuvre. Dense pigments permeate the backgrounds of Boyer’s paintings in saturated rainbow hues. Alchemical spills, stains and splashes dye the canvas, exposing numerous under-paintings visible through various transparencies.
Throughout his paintings and sculpture Boyer nods to abstract expressionism, minimalism and psychedelic graphic art of the 20th century and blends those with imagery and subjects from his own history. Born in 1983—orphaned between the Millennials and Gen X—Boyer’s work reflects that liminal space between the digital and physical planes. In his ongoing series “Rainbow Cataclysm” he grapples with the notion of humanity’s connection to, and disconnection from, nature: a return to earth, after the fall, or maybe just before it.
Boyer has exhibited his work in solo and two person exhibitions at Shulamit Nazarian, LA, Hilde, LA and Patrick Painter Inc. Group shows and benefits at the Museum of Mexico City, MX, The Underground Museum, ICA LA, and Hauser & Wirth.
Boyer was part of the group exhibition “Everything Has Its Place” curated by Kathy Battista at Sevil Dolmacı Art Gallery.
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