Artist Information
Nancy Boyd
Price range: $500-$5000
Artist Interview & Statement 2020
Nancy Boyd was interviewed by Dorothy Woodend of the Tyee about her views and the impact of the pandemic on her and her practice. In the article “Staving Off Pandemic Panic, an Artist Turns to Masked Portraits”, Boyd reveals how the pandemic has affected her.
Many artists are contending with the double-edged pandemic sword of unfocused time and existential angst. But the humble act of drawing can offer a way to calm the mind and chart a path forward.
“Drawing isn’t a panacea, but a discipline. For artist Nancy Boyd, it’s also a way of making sense of the world. Boyd, who taught drawing and painting at Capilano University for more than two decades, works from her home studio in East Vancouver. In the early months of the pandemic she turned her hand to drawing masked people. A few were people she knew, but many more were faces from the news, health-care workers and frontline folk, with only their eyes visible. She has drawn more than 50 masked faces so far, representing a broad range of ages and backgrounds. …”
“I wanted to be a witness to this extraordinary time but in a way that wasn’t fraught with all the complex considerations that plagued my regular practice.”
For the full article please go to The Tyee’s website HERE.
Nancy was born in Hamilton in 1949 and studied art at Ontario College of Art as well as at the University of Waterloo before moving to Vancouver. For years she worked as a designer and architectural renderer, most notably for Expo 86. Nancy taught design, drawing and painting at Capilano University for 23 years before she retired in 2010. Her work retains the influences of her design and architectural rendering background as evident in her fascination with ‘views’ and the conflation of scale between the microscopic and the cosmic. All her work, either representational or abstract, is infused with an ongoing sense of wonder and attention to the beautiful.
Nancy has shown extensively in the Lower Mainland and western Canada as well as internationally in the US, Japan and Australia. Her work can be seen at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery Rental Programs and at Wallace Galleries in Calgary.
Nancy Boyd, a Vancouver artist and educator, has worked in various capacities in the local art scene for many years. Once a designer and illustrator for Expo ‘86, she now teaches drawing and painting part-time at Capilano College in North Vancouver when she is not in her studio. Her mixed media work is increasingly abstract, highly tactile and frequently infused with figurative or metaphoric allusions. She has shown extensively around the lower mainland in the public galleries of Richmond, Surrey, Burnaby and Coquitlam. In addition, her work has been exhibited in Washington State, Japan and locally at Equinox and Diane Farris galleries. In Vancouver, her work is handled exclusively by Elliot Louis Gallery. In Victoria, her work is shown by Fran Willis Gallery and in Calgary by Wallace Galleries.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 More Wabi Sabi: Dark Matter, SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2014 Wabi Sabi: Dark Matter, SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2014 Final Capilano Grad and Faculty Show, Gordon Smith Gallery,
North Vancouver, BC
2013 Exploring Abstraction Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
2012 New Artists Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 (to 2012) Under 8 SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2009 Vancouver International Drawing Festival Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 New Work, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Against the Cold, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 New Work (with Andy Petterson), Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 New Work (with Camrose Ducote), Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 SCANQUEST, Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Resonance Imaging, Ballard/Lederer Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Resonance Imaging, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Recent Drawings of Classical Sculpture, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam BC
1998 Beyond Random, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks BC
1997 Geography Duets, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1997 Opening, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1994 Into the Labyrinth, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1993 Vessels, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
1992 Vessels, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1991 New Drawings, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1990 New Paintings and Drawings, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1990 Nancy Boyd: 1984-1990, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
Group Exhibitions
2016 Summer Show, Gallery Artists, SOMA Gallery, Vancouver BC
2013 Exploring Abstraction, Wallace Galleries, Calgary
2012 New Artists, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2009 Under 8, SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2007 Faculty Exhibit, Capilano College, Vancouver, BC
2007 Splash, (also 2006, 2005) Vancouver, BC
2006 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Splash, Vancouver, BC
2006 Faculty Exhibit, Capilano Colleg, Vancouver, BC
2006 Faculty Exchange Exhibit, U. of Wollongong, Australia
2005 Art for Life, Vancouver, BC
2002 Volumes: Sculptural Artist’s Books, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
1999 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1998 Art of the Book, Community Arts Council, Vancouver BC
1998 Printmakers, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1997 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1997 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1997 Ji Ku/Space-Time, Asian Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC
1996 Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1994 Capilano College Art Gallery, North Vancouver BC
1993 Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1993 Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1992 Aichi Gekusan College, Japan
1990 Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC
Collections
Air Canada
Boughton, Peterson, Yan, Anderson
Briant, Angus, McClellan and Ruebenstein
City of Vancouver Art Collection
Fireside Industries International
First City Financial Corporation
Hotel Georgia, Vancouver BC
Lignum Ltd.
MacAulay McColl
McDonald’s of Canada
Telesat Canada
St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver
Peterson, Yan, Anderson, Vancouver
The Keg, Toronto
Bibliography
“Five Artists Selling in the West”, Galleries West Magazine, Fall/Winter 2013.
‘‘Artists at Capilano College, The Capilano Review, 2007
‘‘Global Relations’‘, Ilawarra Mercury News, Australia, 2006
‘‘Nancy Boyd at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Asian Art News, March/April, 1999
Nancy Boyd: Portrait Anaglogs, Johnson, Mia, PREVIEW, November 1998
The Power and the Glory, The Vancouver Sun, November 14, 1992
New Drawings from Nancy Boyd, The Vancouver Sun, June 28, 1991
Works from a Female Perspective, The Vancouver Sun, May 12, 1990
Visual Puns Compelling, The Province, May 11, 1987
International Women’s Day Group Exhibition e-Catalog 2021
International Women’s Day Group Exhibition 2021: #ChooseToChallenge
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