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John Boyd
(American printmaker)
American, (1939–2012)
Professor of Printmaking at Wichita State University. He studied at California State University at Long Beach and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. His prints and drawings are in more than twenty-five institutional collections, and they have been included in numerous group juried and invitational exhibitions both regionally and throughout the country. He has participated in many workshops and artist and lecture programs.
Artist Statement:
"Folk or Naive Art has been of interest to me for most of my art career. The self-taught outsiders, as they are often called, have had a positive influence on images that I've chosen to turn into prints and drawings. Words which help describe their work could be descriptive of my own images. Folk Art terms include "outsider," "visionary," "innocent," "self-taught," "marginal," "primitive," "spontaneous," "naive," and "folk." Regardless, I find their work unique and straightforward, and a little mysterious, with little artistic pretension. These are traits I try to instill in my own work.
The recent monoprints are images from childhood memories. Everything is idealized and stylized, and has little to do with stark reality. However, the prints are about real life experiences, filtered through time, like a dream. The images themselves are made "naive" through flattened space, distorted anatomical representation, textural decoration and lack of any real perspective. I hope that the interior vision I produce in my art is sane, friendly, sensible, unique, and sometimes humorous."
-http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=fa_printmaking&p=/boyd
(American printmaker)
American, (1939–2012)
Professor of Printmaking at Wichita State University. He studied at California State University at Long Beach and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. His prints and drawings are in more than twenty-five institutional collections, and they have been included in numerous group juried and invitational exhibitions both regionally and throughout the country. He has participated in many workshops and artist and lecture programs.
Artist Statement:
"Folk or Naive Art has been of interest to me for most of my art career. The self-taught outsiders, as they are often called, have had a positive influence on images that I've chosen to turn into prints and drawings. Words which help describe their work could be descriptive of my own images. Folk Art terms include "outsider," "visionary," "innocent," "self-taught," "marginal," "primitive," "spontaneous," "naive," and "folk." Regardless, I find their work unique and straightforward, and a little mysterious, with little artistic pretension. These are traits I try to instill in my own work.
The recent monoprints are images from childhood memories. Everything is idealized and stylized, and has little to do with stark reality. However, the prints are about real life experiences, filtered through time, like a dream. The images themselves are made "naive" through flattened space, distorted anatomical representation, textural decoration and lack of any real perspective. I hope that the interior vision I produce in my art is sane, friendly, sensible, unique, and sometimes humorous."
-http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=fa_printmaking&p=/boyd
Artist Objects
Snake Dog 2011.020