Adam Boyd,1993年出生于英国Newcastle-under-Lyme,本科毕业于格拉斯哥艺术学院,后于2022年毕业于伦敦斯莱德艺术学院(Slade)。同时,他也是2022年度New Contemporaries大奖得主。
在令人眼花缭乱充满了荧光色彩和夸张形态的当代艺术圈里,Boyd的作品并不惹眼,甚至在色调上有些暗淡和单调。但一旦走近他的作品便能发现他的作品充满了细节——不同肌理之间的碰撞、不同媒介的来回跨越。
在日常生活中艺术家常会被易变和空灵这些难以捕捉的性质所打动,这些性质从本质上来说是一种非物质性。概括的来讲,Boyd的艺术实践便是去捕捉然后实体化这种非物质性。为了打到这种目的,他倾向使用偏手工艺的媒介,如缝纫、拼贴、毛毡等。
Boyd对于非物质性的切入点是当城市环境被过滤或折射后渗透到家庭/室内环境中的瞬间。同时,艺术家的研究围绕艺术史和流行文化的交点展开,对他来说,这些内容隐藏着更广泛的哲学和科学辩论的痕迹。Boyd对科幻文学和电影有着浓厚的兴趣,它们也影响了艺术家对于超现实和未来主义图像的审美倾向。Boyd曾说他希望自己的作品可以是一个不同想法和媒介的试验台,艺术家的一切想法和作画过程都在这里进行互动和萌芽。
Boyd的艺术实践始于他的数码摄影,然后以独特的方式和工艺将这些摄影作品转移到毛毡或布料上。传统的毛毡和缝纫工艺与3D打印和激光雷达扫描等高科技技术结合,Boyd的实践站在传统和未来中间来回移动,不再属于时空中的某个静点,提供了一种历时(Synchronic)角度和思维方式来看待历史更迭。对于艺术家来说,这些作品是他找寻过去、现在、未来平衡的一种途径。
展览经历 | Exhibition History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Causal Thread, The Briggait, Glasgow, 20th July - 8th August 2022
Strand Systems, Litla Gallerý, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, 3rd-5th September 2021
Synthespians, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, 12th July - 9th August 2019
Solaristics, Mount Florida Gallery & Studios, Glasgow, 9th-12th March 2018
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Eleven Twenty Three, St. Bartholomew The Great, London, 20th April - 3rd May
A consciousness harnessed to flesh, D Contemporary, London, 26th January - 25th February
2022
SEDIMENT, Kunstraum, ACall Festival, London, 9th-11th December
New Contemporaries 2022, South London Gallery, London, 8th December 2022 - 12th March 2023
NOW Introducing 2022, Studio West, London, 11th November - 10th December
Martin Millers Gin X StART Emerging Artist Prize, StART Art Fair 2022, Saatchi Gallery, London, 12th-16th October
Tangible / Intangible, The Haberdashery, Glasgow, 7th-28th October
New Contemporaries 2022, Humber Street Gallery and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 22nd September - 27 November
Prelude to Space, Stokey Popup, Hackney, London, 16th-18th September
Fragments, Subtitle Labs, Omer Tiroche Gallery, London, 8th September - 5th October
StART Art Fair Seoul 2022, Sung Dong Gu, Seoul Sup 2 gil, 32 Galleria Foret, G Floor, Seoul, South Korea, 1st-6th September
The Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, 16th-25th June
S P I I I I I N E L E S S, The Small Press Project, UCL Art Museum, London, 13th May - 10th June
HEADLESS, The Island, Bristol, 14th-17th AprilColour/Pigment/Poetry, The Slade School of Fine Art, Online, 20th-22nd March
Why Don't You Dance?, ASC Gallery, London, 22nd January - 11th February
作者:徐蕴慧,毕业于英国牛津大学艺术史系,艺术商及艺术顾问,从事艺术批评及艺术市场等内容写作。