Hampton Boyer
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Hampton Boyer (b. 1988 Pittsburgh, PA) layers bright, geometric forms to create his figurative paintings and collages. He juxtaposes inspiration pulled from African folklore and literature with his own experience as a contemporary artist. The flow that he achieves through his artistic practice fills his work with reverberating energy and intimate emotion. “My works and practice are ever evolving, mostly finding inspiration from the black body and the environment that provides conditioning. I use saturated color, escapism provided imagery and reverberating emotion from perspective. Pulling references from African literature and folklore, juxtaposing it with a present artistic voice. This voice accompanied by flow state, allow me to generate not only imagery, but give a sense of purpose to why I create.”
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Solo Exhibitions
…Where Was I, Pamplemousse Gallery, June 2023
Memory Dances, OMNI Gallery, January 2023
Sunflower Fields, Eleanor & Hopps Gallery, August 2021
There Is No Place Like Here, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2020
You’ll Always Make It Through, Sometimes Gallery, October 2019
Live To Be, Thank You Gallery, November 2016
I Watch Faces Go By, None of Them Belong To You (Tropical Depression), 670 Gallery March 2016
Now That You're Here, Nobile & Amundsen Gallery, VA June-July 2013
On The Strength, Phoebus Gallery, VA July 2011
Group Exhibitions
Dreams and Diversions: Images of America, Johansson Projects, August 2020
Primordial Emanations, that which is brought forth follows the womb: a surrender to her luminous blackness,
1708 Gallery, August 2020 Benediction, Eleanor & Hopps Gallery,
October 2020 Double-Edged, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2019
Faded By The Sun, Pop Blossom Gallery, 2017
Inner Sanctum, 670 Gallery December 2016
A Night at the Auction, Hermitage Museum, August 2016
Metamorphosis, 670 Gallery, April 2015
End Transmission, Nobile & Amundsen Gallery, December 2014
Making Star Stuff, 670 Gallery, December 2014
Virginia Curated , RAWLS Museum Arts,
July 2014 NEXT: Emerging Virginia Artists, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, July 2014
There's Another Way, Brickhaus Art Space, MD January 2013
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