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LYNN BOGGESS solo exhibition
Opening reception Friday evening 07 June 5 – 7 pm through 30 June 2013
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ynn Boggess is no stranger to nature. He painted his first oil landscape when he was in sixth grade. He’s out in nature all the time. Shorts and a ball cap, woolies and a hoody make him comfortable in any season while he paints his large landscapes with oil paints applied to the canvas with cement trowels. Although his landscapes were painted in specific locations, Boggess has the ability to distill them down to their essential elements, giving them a universal appeal. They are like vignettes of the larger landscape around him. The sky seldom appears as a dominant element, rather occurring as a reflection on flowing streams and fields of snow. His portable shelter travels with him as he travels to sites around his home state of West Virginia. “There are an enormous number of reasons not to do what I do,” says Boggess. Painting outdoors with oil paint- which he has done exclusively for the past 11 years- has many challenges. Oil paint allows him “to capture many different kinds of things” that he could not capture with acrylics. Although it would be easier to paint in the studio, Boggess acknowledges that the “sense of place and time” he feels and paints cannot be captured by painting from a photograph, which has already filtered the real experience. Painting in the studio, he says, “doesn’t have the force of nature compelling you or driving you to make these works with the same dynamic qualities.” Rather than simply painting the scene he is in, he works “to record what it feels like to be there.” His compositions add to the effect of being there, as if you were standing in a stream or on its bank, or about to step on leaves or branches. His different sizes of cement trowels and his skill at wielding them allow him to lay in broad strokes of color for the foreground and grade back to finer layers of paint to suggest depth. courtesy | John O’Hern, American Art Collector Magazine
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS + EXHIBITIONS + AWARDS West Virgina Governor’s Mansion, Charleston, WV SAS Institute, Cary, NC Eisai, Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ The Umstead, Cary, NC West Virginia Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 West Virginia Higher Education, Art Educator of the Year 2001 West Virginia Visual Artist of the Year, 1999 West Virginia Governor’s Award of Excellence in Painting, 1997
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05 March 2013, oil on canvas, 54 x 45.5
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28 March 2013, diptych, oil on canvas, 17x 20 (each)
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11 May 2013, oil on canvas, 12 x 24
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06 May 2013, oil on canvas, 12 x 24
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26 March 2013, triptych, oil on canvas, 20 x 17 (each)
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07 March 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 26
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02 March 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 To inquire please call us at: 505.995.9902 or email: info@evokecontemporary.com EvokeContemporary.com
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23 November 2012, oil on canvas, 30 x 26
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16 November 2012, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 To inquire please call us at: 505.995.9902 or email: info@evokecontemporary.com EvokeContemporary.com
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29 April 2013, oil on canvas, 12 x 24
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05 April 2013, oil on canvas, 15 x 30
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26 April 2013, oil on canvas, 12 x 24
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12 April 2013 Diptych, oil on canvas, 17 x 20 (each)
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14 May 2013, oil on canvas, 15 x 30
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16 March 2013, oil on canvas, 15 x 30
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18 March 2013, oil on canvas, 15 x 30
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03 Nov 2012, oil on canvas, 20 x 17
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