Boyle Family, a collaborative group of artists, is known for its “Earth studies” — site-specific black-and-white 3-D casts of the earth. The communal group, started by husband and wife team Mark Boyle (1934–2005) and Joan Hills (b. 1931), later came to include the couple’s children and even their friends and neighbors, who assisted in the artistic process.
Boyle came from a poetry background, while Hills studied art and architecture. The two sought to objectively present reality in their work by decontextualizing randomly selected subjects. “We want to see without motive and without reminiscence this cliff, this street, this field, this rock, this earth,” they’ve said.
In addition to exploring natural elements, animals, minerals and society, Boyle Family has collaborated with many musicians, artists and dancers, including Jimi Hendrix and Soft Machine.
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Rust Study
By Boyle Family
Located in London, GB
Boyle Family Rust Study , 2001 On the reverse is written 'For Peter with Love & Christmas Greetings 2001' Mixed media, resin and fibreglass 24.0 x 24.0 cm The Boyle Family, a collab...
Mixed Media
Study of Mudcracks with brick and Detritus
By Boyle Family
Located in London, GB
Boyle Family Study of Mudcracks with brick and Detritus , 1974 Mixed media and resin on fibreglass 182.9 x 182.9 cm The Boyle Family, a collaborative group of artists, is known for ...
Mixed Media
Fortress America
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood fort with hand-painted graffiti, a vintage handmade wood carving of Uncle Sam & Trump, confederate flag scrap blindfold, metal chains, 4 vintage fl...
Mixed Media
Butch
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Here's to all the girls who risked disapproval and ridicule from their peers and parents as they shunned dolls and dresses for the toys and lives their brothers had. --- Kat Flyn i...
Mixed Media
Trump Memorial
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
A model of the Lincoln Memorial is defaced, suggesting that metaphorically Trump has debased our public discourse with his lies and incessant tweeting. A contrast is drawn between Li...
Mixed Media
Children III
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration) SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Hymnal (The)
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...
Mixed Media
Attractive, Appraised, Almost Perfect
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
This piece is part of a collaborative series of artworks by Skylar Fein x MRSA SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including t...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled
By James Henderson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Based in New Orleans, James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and the idea of ‘home’ as an emotional space, rather than a physical one. Utilizing found imagery and text as a starting point, Henderson collages and layers his mixed media paintings to create a rich background onto which he often adds the silhouette of a figure, an icon of a house, or colorful drawings of children or shapes. The inclusion of imagery from vintage dress patterns...
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction Unsigned Mixed media, c. 2003-2004 Provenance: Estate of the artist Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A life...
Mixed Media
Borrowed Landscapes Study No.167/ NY, NYC, - Park Skyline
By Nina Tichava
Located in Denver, CO
Nina Tichava's paintings are about relationships; she is interested in the interactions between materials and methods as well as the color and spatial relationships that naturally de...
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Postcard, Graphite, Tape
Gang Bang
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Mixed Media
Ascension - Watchmen
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish [New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY] TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educa...
Mixed Media
Home by Christmas
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In the fall of 1914 soldiers marched off to War singing the popular song, “We'll Be Home by Christmas.” The four years of incredible carnage that ensued should have stood for all tim...
Mixed Media