Opening reception on Friday, February 7 from 6 - 8pm

After a recent trip to the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo, Norway, Boyd became fascinated with the vernacular folk architecture of the region. For his atrium commission, Boyd wanted to use contemporary materials to create an architectural form referencing the Norwegian lofts he experienced.

These materials are the same materials used in building contemporary residential structures: dimensional lumber, drywall, insulation, found doors and windows. With these materials, Boyd makes “constructions” that respond to the contemporary home as the constructed object it is, while allowing for more reflection and distortion whereby they become more representative of the bizarre and arbitrary economic systems that allow for their existence. Like a dream, the relationship between construction object and constructed object becomes distorted, and the temporal moment a more ambiguous balance between simultaneously coalescing and being destroyed.

Boyd holds an MFA from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art (2023) and holds a BFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from Metropolitan State University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado.

 

Gallery
Plaza Gallery
Exhibition Duration
February 07, 2025 - March 21, 2025