Dusty Boynton: SOLO EXHIBITION

March 9 - April 16, 2006

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Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, Chelsea New York is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Vermont artist Dusty Boynton.

Boynton’s recent paintings demonstrate her ongoing interest in conflating the informal and the sophisticated. As “The New York Times” noted in a review title, the work has, “A Childlike Style that Isn’t Childish.” Her cast of characters, with their enlarged eyes, heads, and other quirky features, abandon conventional draftsmanship or traditional depiction and end up in a world of their own. The loose and expressive brushstrokes, heightened color palette, and fantastic, sometimes supernatural imagery give her figures a carefree and imaginative, innocence that is often associated with children’s art.

However, despite the initial juvenile sweep of her work, Boynton’s cultivated maturity guides the final product. The initial associations of her pieces begin to yield to subtle details that challenge the viewer’s preconceptions about such imagery. The frivolity of Boynton’s fantasies mingles with more vexing realities.

The sheer scale of her paintings belies the preciousness of child’s drawing. Expressive brushstrokes, while seemingly loose and gestural, only appear to continue uninterrupted as if created by a stick of charcoal, pencil or crayon. The continuous gesture is more calculated and formally rigorous than it would appear. These characteristics result in a kind of expressionism that brings to mind Willem De Kooning as well as Neo Expressionists such as Kippenberger, Immendorf, Chia, and, on this side of the Atlantic, Basquiat. Boynton’s compositions are steeped in a fanciful sensibility that sets her apart from the determined audacity associated with such counterparts.

Equal parts youth and maturity, fantasy and objectivity, Boynton’s work walks a wire that spans from the body to the mind.

Dusty Boynton has shown at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York City, Gallery Jupiter in Little Silver, New Jersey, and Steffany Martz Gallery in New York City. She has been including in dozens of group exhibitions including “In the Garden” at Barbara Krakow in Boston, “Book, Box, Word. Volume II” at the University of Florida and the North Miami Contemporary Art Center, and the “New Prints, 2002” exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Her work has been covered in Art in America, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, the New York Times, and ArtNews.

There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 9, 2006 from 6-8 pm.

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