SUE BOYDSTON
Sue
Boydston's academic and professional work has taken her throughout the United
States, Europe and Asia. An honor graduate of Old Dominion University, she has
done postgraduate work at George Washington University and the University of
Hawaii. Sue has been a visual arts teacher in the Norfolk, Washington D.C.,
Chicago, Honolulu and the Metro Nashville public school systems.
The
artist's studio work includes watercolors, gouaches, acrylics and oils on paper
and canvas, monoprints, collages and papier mache masks. Her large abstract
pieces are developed from collages, drawings and small paintings made in a
stream of consciousness fashion inspired by a specific place or event. An idea
may be dormant in sketch form, slowly translating itself into appropriate size
and medium. Hard edges invade amorphous space to become symbols for
environmental elements, both natural and synthetic. Movement within each design
becomes the vehicle for emotional content. Her strong use of color can be
attributed to nine years as a working artist in Hawaii, where light, shadows
and color are supremely intense.
An
award winning artist, Sue Boydston has been selected for inclusion in numerous
regional juried exhibitions. Principal among these were the Virginia Museum of
Art Athenaeum Biennial, judged by Robert Hughes of Time Magazine, and Artists
of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, judged by James T. Demetrion, curator of
the Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Her awards
include several Best In Show and Grumbacher medals and the prestigious Jean
Charlot Foundation Award. Sue has shown her work in numerous one person and
group shows in Washington D.C., Honolulu HI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, Norfolk
VA, and Trenton NJ. Her paintings appear in private and corporate collections
nationwide.