Jarvis Boyland

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Jarvis Boyland
Jarvis Boyland's work contemplates the past to help us question how we romanticize it. His figurative paintings and drawings conjure retro environments that evoke the 1970s. Through his idyllic color palette and delicate rendering of textiles and flesh, Boyland offers moments of personal reconciliation that traverse time. Jarvis Boyland's palette abounds with bright, vivid hues. A deft colourist, he relishes the moods conjured by pinks, periwinkles, reds, blues. When he renders flesh, he gives it a luminous, almost iridescent quality, which derives in part from his approach to building up the surface of the canvas. His sensitively rendered portraits of people from his community, often situated in fictitious domestic environments, consider gender and intimacy.
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Jarvis Boyland

Jarvis Boyland (b. 1995, Memphis, TN), lives and works in Los Angeles. Boyland received his BFA from the University of Memphis, TN in 2017 and his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include:'Sanctuary' Jarvis Boyland and Zenobia (duo show), Deli Gallery, New York, USA (2024); 'Lucky Stars', MAMOTH, London, UK (2022), 'On Hold:', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019). Recent group exhibitions include:

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (2024); Black American Portraits, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (2023); 'All That Light: A Ten Year Retrospective of the AIR Program (2012-2022)', Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL (2022); Spoiled, TONE, Memphis, TN (2022); 'Myselves', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020); 'Disembodiment', United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, CA (2019); 'Permutations', Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2019); 'Foresight/Insight Reflecting on the Museum's Collection', Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, KS (2019). Recent residencies include Artist-In-Residence, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM (2023); Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL (2022); Artist-In-Residence Arts + Public Life and University of Chicago (CSRPC) (2018 - 2019) and ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI (2017).

 

Jarvis Boyland's work has been collected by numerous private and public collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and the Brooklyn Museum.

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