Gallery Opening: Lowell Boyers, Garden of Here and Now

KABINETT, the South End’s newest gallery, is pleased to present the first exhibition in Boston of New York-based artist Lowell Boyers. The exhibition, “Garden of Here and Now,” will be on view from June 16 through July 26. The opening reception will take place on Friday, June 16 from 6 to 9 pm and is open to the public.

Featuring mixed media paintings on canvas and paper, this new body of work draws on the artist’s long-term engagement with Buddhist philosophy and practice. Tom Healy, writer and former Chairman of the Fulbright Board and President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, has written that “Boyers' paintings radiate outward. It's as if we were witness to the moments following internal combustions, as if Boyers had just broken a barrier between us and some inner world. The surfaces are so liquid that color stains that world, saturates it with brilliance, but never seems to fix it into a rigid image. There is no ground, no sky, no horizon in these paintings. We look through cloud color, breath, vapor toward the glow of some inner space.”

The artist writes: “In the landscape of my paintings there is no distinction between the inside and outside of the figure or person. The body is like a piece of music, just a texture to elicit reflection, swirls and diaphanous pours of paint, veils of inner and outer textures of the figure’s current moment. The poured paint is blood, circulatory system, bodily fluid, and at the same time images seem to appear and disappear in the paint as water turns into fire, heart into head, head into landscape, landscape into lung tissue, lung tissue into wind. Everything is constantly changing. I try to use paint and painting to examine that phenomena.”

Please join us at the opening to meet the artist and get to know Boston's newest gallery!

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