Darlene Boyd’s paintings are on display in San Jose and Santa
Cruz
San Juan Bautista artist Darlene Boyd has been steadily plying
her talents to many paintings this last year and is now exhibiting
some of her artwork in downtown San Jose.
The
”
Resolutions and Dissolutions
”
exhibit is located at the Martin Luther King Library, 2nd Floor
Gallery, 150 E. San Fernando St., in San Jose, through Oct. 31.
Darlene Boyd’s paintings are on display in San Jose and Santa Cruz
San Juan Bautista artist Darlene Boyd has been steadily plying her talents to many paintings this last year and is now exhibiting some of her artwork in downtown San Jose.
The “Resolutions and Dissolutions” exhibit is located at the Martin Luther King Library, 2nd Floor Gallery, 150 E. San Fernando St., in San Jose, through Oct. 31.
The first piece she has in the exhibit is titled “Arthur Nyland Building” and is an acrylic on canvas. This piece was created as a resolve to more thoroughly understand and appreciate her newly chosen environs of San Juan Bautista, after she first moved to San Benito County. Boyd described the subject in a press release: The is century-old building that was showing much neglect. One could see the business of its importance as a place of commerce, that had slipped into disuse as the century dissolved and ways of transporting and doing commerce changed radically. It has more recently been transformed into an icon of surfeit, the ubiquitous storage lockers in which to store the overflow of lives packed with too much “stuff.”
The second piece she has in this exhibit is titled “Eau de Monet,” an oil painting on canvas. This piece was created with the resolution to return to some of the influences of her roots in creating paintings, as she resolved a more playfully serious commitment to her own artist calling. The composition celebrates the light of discovery that brings satisfaction in creating. It dissolves her anxieties to be with what she knows and to create from that center.
The “Go Figure!” exhibit is located at the Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA. The Artists’ Reception and Awards Ceremony was will be held Oct. 30. The exhibit runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 21. For the show, she selected her artwork titled “Los Tres Brachos,” a portrait of her neighbor’s children, as they were intently focused on listening for the next cue to move in a game of musical chairs. This was one of those candid moments that included all three children all focused on one event.
Boyd’s art work can be viewed online at http://www.darleneboyd.com or request a private viewing in her home gallery through her contact page.
