An Afternoon at Mackenzie Art Gallery

Actual colour: black on white

Into the imagination of the artist, Shary Boyle, was humorous, thoughtful and very curious. While the image of the brochure is in black and white, her multiple ceramic or terracotta sculptures were colourful, fanciful and some disturbing. In our present day world, each of us has perceptions and biases about others seldom talked about or maybe even identify within our own minds. Outside the Palace of Me asks us to participate in her Palace and interpret her art as we see them. A total of nine sculptures, most about three feet tall, two are well over height. Include in the showing are several of her paintings, equally thought provoking. Spending the afternoon with two good friends, we viewed them all carefully each coming away with different perceptions and ideas of Shary Boyle’s sculptures and artwork. 

“Shary Boyle (b.1972) is from the Scarborough area of Toronto. The recipient of a 2021 Honouraary Doctorate of Fine Arts from her alma mater, Boyle graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1994, and soon developed a studio practice centred on  figurative drawing, painting an dlive performance. Creating deeply imaginative, idiosyncratic and unsettling worlds,….” ~ From the brochure Outside the Palace of Me ‘About the Artist’

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. 

Knowledge is limited.Imagination encircles the world.”

~ Albert Einstein