Wild and Wonderful

EVOKE CONTEMPORARY EVENT CALENDAR

All events take place at EVOKE Contemporary, 550 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Visit evokecontemporary.com to sign up for special previews + for further information.

September 24 Los Tres Modernos Ride Again

Corazón y Orgullo features the work of Nicholas Herrera, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, and Thomas Vigil.

Exhibition will be on display through November 20, 2021.

October 29 Autumn Highlights

An exhbition of works by artists focusing on the beauty of the fall season Exhibition will be on display through November 20, 2021.

November 26 The Middle Place

New works by Christopher Benson Exhibition will be on display through January 22, 2022.

December 31 Revelry

Holiday exhibition and celebration Exhibition will be on display through January 22, 2022.

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Wild and WonderfulLynn Boggess

Apivotal point in Lynn Boggess’s art process occurred one day in 2000, when, to capture in paint a moment in time, he picked up the only tool within reach: a masonry trowel. He found that this gave him an immediacy that a brush could not: Because the trowel could quickly cover large areas of canvas, he was able to more accurately record a specific time and place. Additionally, the thick paint behaved almost as a sculptural medium, giving paintings a heightened physical presence. To experiment with the process, he set himself the goal for that summer of making one hundred small paintings. By the time those hundred paintings had been completed, what had begun as a experiment had become an obsession.

As Boggess mastered the process, metaphysical theories associated with his abstract work resurfaced from his early studies. Painting on-site gave him a certain empathy with the land. The subjects he found most fascinating were those in which there was evidence of struggle: broken trees, windswept rubble, great boulders, floodwater. That connection remains in his current work, which is heroic in both subject and process. As the paintings have grown in size, the discipline of being present in nature continues. An assemblage of easels, boxes, and scaffolds is necessary to bring the canvas to the subject. The work is created in all types of terrain in all kinds of weather.

The possibilities of texture in the work are now fully realized. Boggess’s complex mark-making serves to both describe and provide content. He works the painted surface as if digging, trying to form something out of the earth itself. He applies layer on layer of paint, then removes and adds paint in large sweeps and rough scratches.

Left: Lynn Boggess, 30 April 2021, oil on canvas, 70.5” x 60.25”

Lynn Boggess, 11 March 2021, oil on canvas, 28.25” x 52.25”