FALL 2021: Outside the Palace of Me. With texts by Shary Boyle, Sequoia Miller and Crystal Mowry. Based on the touring museum exhibition of the same name, Outside the Palace of Me reflects on global and individual struggles of identity to wonder at the possibilities of a just, joyous, and collective future. Presenting masterful ceramics and watercolours as well as animatronics of dizzying proportions and a dazzling spectrum of handcraft, Boyle has created a visionary new project merging the languages of carnival, theatre, and the art museum, inviting readers to reflect on their roles in, and responses to, the most urgent questions of our time. Linen-bound hardcover: 177 pages. Publisher: Art Canada Institute; 1st edition (October 12, 2021). Language: English
NEW. Roger Aksadjuak, Shuvinai Ashoona, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Shary Boyle, Jessie Kenalogak, John Kurok and Leo Napayok:
EARTHLINGS
Curated by Shary Boyle in collaboration with Shauna Thompson. With texts by Shary Boyle, Heather Igloliorte, Naomi Potter and Shauna Thompson. EARTHLINGS is an exhibition of visionary ceramic sculpture and works on paper, produced both individually and collaboratively, by seven contemporary artists. Otherworldly, surreal, magically figurative, and underpinned by complex narratives, the works in this exhibition are the products of a range of deeply personal practices that are informed by idiosyncratic realities and myths, real and imagined spaces, sensuality, and spirituality.
Softcover: 144 pages, 28 x 28 cm.
Publisher: Esker Foundation in collaboration with Doris McCarthy Gallery,
Galerie de l’UQAM and Nanaimo Art Gallery (December 2017).
Language: Inuktitut, French and English.
To purchase: Esker Foundation
Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle: Universal Cobra. Ashoona and Boyle have been collaborating on and co-exhibiting their cosmic, boundry-shredding drawings since 2009. Universal Cobra presents a concentrated selection of their independent artworks, as well as a special collaborative series of jointly-made drawings completed in Cape Dorset, Nunavut in 2015.
Softcover: 48 pages, 23 full colour drawings with details. Publisher: You’ve Changed Records (January, 2016). Language: English, Inuktitut. 18 x 23 cm. Limited edition of 200 copies. SOLD OUT. For images and details, click here
Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke: The Illuminations Project.The Illuminations Project is a decade-long collaboration between two artists, feminists and friends. Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke’s visionary call-and-response forges connections between subversion and joy, drawing and writing. It is an exquisitely rendered road map through the chaos of growing up female, fearless and hungry for meaning.
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Oakville Galleries (September 15, 2015)
Language: English
30 x 25 cm
Shary Boyle : Music for Silence.
As the commissioning institution for the 55th International Venice Biennale Canadian Pavilion, the National Gallery of Canada presents the work of Shary Boyle, a consummate object maker who uses imaginary narratives to explore human psychological and emotional states. The catalogue highlights the artist’s practice, which spans a diversity of media, including fine craft, drawing, sculpture, experimental performance and immersive installations. Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: National Gallery of Canada (June 1, 2013) Language: English, French and Italian
29 x 21 cm
Flesh and Blood: Shary Boyle.
Ingenuity, virtuosity and refinement define the fabulous world of multi-disciplinary artist Shary Boyle. With extraordinary versatility, the Toronto artist engages in drawing, painting, sculpture, audio-visual performance and installations to explore human psychological and emotional states through a fictional fantasy. At once feminist, dream-like and poetic, but always charged with disturbing emotion and expressive candour, her works generate daring and original perspectives on the present.
Contributors
Louise Dery is director of the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal. James Bewley is Program Officer at the Andy Warhol Foundation in NYC. Michelle Jacques is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in B.C.
Hardcover: 189 pages
Publisher: ABC Art Books Canada Distribution; Bilingual edition (Dec 15 2010)
Language: English and French
27.3 cm x 21.6 cm
Otherworld Uprising : Shary Boyle.Otherworld Uprising features full colour reproductions of Boyle’s recent series of porcelain figurines, examines the influence of her research into historical porcelain on her drawings, and considers the parallel development of her latest oil portraits. The book also features critical essays by the Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Josee Drouin-Brisebois, and Sheila Heti (who also contributes new fiction), with an introduction by Ben Portis, an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Conundrum Press (Aug 1 2008)
31 x 23.6 cm
Shary Boyle : Witness My Shame.Witness My Shame collects nine of Shary Boyle’s bookworks, the collaborative project Perfect Nature World and a unique portfolio of her drawings. They are mini stories of major subjects unfolding in a beautifully paced sequence of revelations.
Paperback: 160 pages, Second Printing
Publisher: Conundrum Press (Oct 15 2004)
20.2 x 15.4 cm
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