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ABOUT THE
ARTIST
SUE
BOYDSTON
Sue Boydston=s
academic and professional work has taken her throughout the United
States, Europe and Asia. An honor graduate of Old Dominion
University, she has done postgraduate work at George Washington
University and the University of Hawaii. Sue has been a visual arts
teacher in the Norfolk, Washington D. C., Chicago, Honolulu, and the
Metro Nashville public school systems.
The artist=s
studio work includes watercolors, gouaches, acrylics and oils on
paper and canvas, monoprints, collages and papier mache masks. Her
large abstract pieces are developed from collages , drawings, and
small paintings made in a stream of consciousness fashion inspired
by a specific place or event. An idea may be dormant in sketch form
, slowly translating itself into appropriate size and medium. Hard
edges invade amorphous space to become symbols for environmental
elements, both natural and synthetic. Movement within each design
becomes the vehicle for emotional content. Her strong use of color
can be attributed to nine years as a working artist in Hawaii, where
light, shadows and color are supremely intense.
An award winning artist,
Sue Boydston has been selected for inclusion in numerous regional
juried exhibitions. Principal among these were the Virginia Museum
of Art Athenaeum Biennial, judged by Robert Hughes of Time Magazine,
and Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, judged by James T.
Demetrion, curator of the Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C. Her awards include several Best in Show and
Grumbacher medals and the prestigious Jean Charlot Foundation Award.
Sue has shown her work in numerous one person and group shows in
Washington D.C., Honolulu HI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, Norfolk VA
and Trenton NJ. Her paintings appear in private and corporate
collections nationwide.
Recently, Sue traveled
the Intracoastal Waterway as first mate on a
trawler observing the weather, water, tides, sky and shoreline from
the Chesapeake Bay to Southwest Florida. In her studio in Naples
she is using the small watercolors and drawings she created while
underway as the inceptions for larger canvas paintings in the
acrylic and oil mediums. |