“Home Haunter,” porcelain, fur, gold luster, china paint by Shary Boyle, 2015
That’s not to say, of course, that if you’re not as dark and demented as yours truly, that you won’t also be drawn to these gorgeous yet strange ceramic sculptures by Canadian artist, Shary Boyle. But it might help.
Boyle has worked with a number of musical artists during her career, like the equally out-there Peaches and Feist. While her CV isn’t limited to sculpture (Boyle works in nearly every medium), it is her bizarre, yet enchanting sculptures that caught my eye today. Boyle’s strange ceramics, while compelling to look at, also attempt to convey powerful messages on such topics as social equality, eroticism and the emotional turmoil that we as human beings are subjected to existing in this world together.
What I love most about Boyle’s off-kilter ceramics, in addition to their heavy ideas, is that they are at times somewhat amusing (to me anyway). Like her piece “Bless You,” which features a creepy white porcelain hand, with an drastically elongated middle finger pointed straight at the sky.
“Home Haunter,” back view
“The Dandy Widow,” 2009
“Untitled,” 2005
“Bless You,” 2014
“Your Humble Servant,” 2014
“Moths Drink Tears,” 2014
“Cloverleaf,” 2014
“Live Old,” 2010
“Intersects,” 2009
“The Lute Player,” 2010
“Dogpile,” 2010
“Uakari,” 2014
“Family,” 2010
“Venusblumen,” 2009
“Regrets,” 2015
“Maypole,” 2010
h/t Beautiful Decay
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Grandma’s ceramic figurines get a grim makeover