Concrete Collaboration
SALISBURY, MD---
An exhibition, "Concrete Collaboration," comprising diptychs by Lynn and Jennifer Hall Boggess will be shown in the Fulton Hall Gallery from March 1-April 12. The opening reception will be held on Friday, March 1, from 6-8 p.m.
The Boggesses from West Virginia are married and have corresponding careers as professors/landscape artists, but that is where their parallel visions end. The diptychs in their exhibition will combine a shared theme and subject, but the process they used to arrive at the forms is reversed. "Concrete Collaboration" is their first joint exhibition.
Jennifer's work is of conceptual arrangements of mapping with landscape references. She looks beyond the remote reference of a map to perceive what the reality of the landscape actually projects-based on previous contacts with the sites being represented-to establish a concrete connection in her memory and imagination.
Lynn's strategy is more traditional. He uses a direct, concrete encounter with the landscape to document a minute-by-minute, ever-changing scene into a static, concrete record in oil paint. Most contemporary landscape artists work in their studios using photographs for their inspiration whereas Boggess paints "plein-aire" (from nature in the field). He characteristically uses thick oil paint to access the greatest amount of empathetic intensity in the making of the object. His canvases are huge, massively thick, multi-layered, almost impressionistic surface of oil paint.
Lynn Boggess is one of West Virginia's most honored painters. He was recently chosen as the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the West Virginia Art Education Association, and he won the Governor's Award for Excellence in painting in 1995 and 1997, and in 1999 he was the first recipient of the Visual Artist of the Year Award from the Governor's Awards for Culture and History and the Arts. He is a professor of art at Fairmont (WV) State College.
Jennifer Hall Boggess is an assistant professor at Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, WV. She teaches all painting, drawing, foundations, art education and art history courses and has curated/directed numerous exhibitions in regional galleries.
Exhibit hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m.
For more information contact the University Galleries Office at 410-548-2547 or visit www.salisbury.edu.