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① Artwork:
Humid Pink Flames
Humid Pink Flames depicts three burning candles rendered in dye on silk velvet in the artist's signature style. One candle drips melted wax onto the next, to be consumed again by fire. Natural energy, in the form of fire, is released through a human construction, the candle.
The artist is known for his paintings that position mushrooms and other figures from nature as twisting dancers floating in a velvety picture field. Fluid acts of exchange, viscosity, and surface manipulation situate themselves as methods of painting with a visceral and tactile sense of embodiment.
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③ Artist:
Texas-born Travis Boyer makes the pragmatic personal in works that address both timely events in popular consciousness as well as his own emotions. He often employs dyed fabric in his sculptural assemblages and canvases. Boyer explores the eros of observation and the fluid nature of desire in intimate images with alluringly tactile surfaces.
Travis Boyer was born in 1979 in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Exhibitions showing his work have been held at: the Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the New Museum in New York City; the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the Goethe Institute in New York City; High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California; SOMArts in San Francisco, California; CAMH in Houston, Texas; Johannes Vogt Gallery in New York City; Participant Inc. in New York City; Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City; Company Gallery in New York City; and Piso 51 in Mexico City, Mexico; among others.
Boyer was among the first artists awarded the Fire Island Artist Residency.
Boyer’s work has been collected by: the High Museum in Atlanta, GA; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine; the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; and numerous private collections.
Boyer’s work has been covered in Artforum, The New Yorker, Vogue magazine, and New York magazine.
Boyer currently lives in Queens, New York.
This work depicts three burning candles rendered in dye on silk velvet in the artist's signature style. One candle drips melted wax onto the next, to be consumed again by fire. Natural energy, in the form of fire, is released through a human construction, the candle.More
- Framed: 60.5 x 43.2 x 2.6 in.
- Signed
- This artwork is currently on view in a special exhibition and will ship by July 13, 2023.
