Scotch Bonnet
61 cms x 45.7 cms (24 ins x 18 ins)
Signed and dated 2007 and on verso titled on a label
drawn in 2007
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "The Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman (5th session)" held on Thu, Sep 28, 2023.
Lot 403
Lot 403
Estimate: CAD $4,000 - $6,000
Realised: CAD $5,938
Realised: CAD $5,938
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman, Toronto
Exhibitions:
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
Notes:
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.
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldman, Toronto
Exhibitions:
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
Notes:
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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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.