✌🏻 Patel Brown is pleased to share that Shary Boyle’s first New York solo show “The Forgetting” will be opening at Sargent’s Daughters, this week on November 10! ✌🏻 This presentation features works from Boyle’s series, “The Grafters”, so-called because they splice together the media of painting, drawing, ceramics, and textiles, much like grafting different apple species onto a single tree, or transplanting skin in grafts. These works feature solitary portraits silhouetted against abstract backdrops, often accompanied by floral arrangements. The figures exist within a visual world of imagination, while the three-dimensional sculptural elements represent an “objective” reality – something unstable and often fabricated. Ceramics, buttons, and decorative trims attached to the stretched linen interrupt and deface the pristine illusion of painting, and reference the materiality of the body and earth. To the artist, this contrast illuminates the complicated dimensions between our inner, and outer selves. Shary Boyle The Forgetting November 10 – December 17, 2022 Follow @sargentsdaughters to find out more. Featured above: Shary Boyle “The Forgetting,” 2022 Porcelain, underglaze, china paint, gold lustre, rolling paper 20.5 x 10 x 10 in. #sharyboyle #theforgetting #newyorkexhibition #contemporaryart