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What single work of art would you steal? The Glasstire staff asked this question of ourselves, and this is what we came up with.
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If you need a history refresher on American independence, catch Christina Rees’ throwback find of Schoolhouse Rocks.
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Since he emerged in the mid-aughts as an important new voice in the Houston art scene, the writer Robert Boyd has been a fixture here.
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Kalup Linzy and Eve Sussman/Simon Lee among the grant awardees.
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Robert Boyd is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of video installation, photography and sculpture. Selected solo exhibitions include the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland (2009); MoMA/P.S.1 in New York (2008); Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in Indianapolis (2007); Context Gallery in Derry (2007); Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT (2007); and Participant Inc in New York (2006). Selected group exhibitions include Deichtorhallen in Hamburg (2010); Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong (2009); PinchukArt Centre in Kiev (2008); Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA (2008); 303 Gallery in New York (2007); and Kunst-Werke in Berlin (2006). His awards include a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2010); a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work (2009); a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2006); and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship in Photography (2004). His work in included in several public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création in Paris. His video, “Xanadu”, was an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Robert Boyd’s artwork explores the persistent impact that historic events and unexamined cultural prejudices from the past have on the present. His video installation “Xanadu” (2006), culls archival footage from an array of sources, including that of doomsday cults, iconic political figures and global fundamentalist movements, to represent a history of apocalyptic thought as a series of MTV-style music videos. Similarly, his video installation “Conspiracy Theory” (2008) incorporates video and audio excerpts from some of today's leading conspiracists to address issues of social paranoia and civil distrust. Meanwhile, works from his exhibition “The Virgin Collection” (2002), act as a send-up of consumer culture's obsession with wedlock while suggesting underlying sinister implications of power and representation.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
