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      • Tracey Halvorsen (02/26/2022-05/14/2022)
      • James McDonald (02/26/2022-04/02/2022)
      • Matt Muirhead (04/09/2022-05/14/2022)
      • Scott G. Brooks (04/16/2022-07/09/2022)
      • Tricia Zimic (05/21/2022-06/25/2022)
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      • Osvaldo Mesa (07/02/2022-08/06/2022)
      • Patricia Tomes (07/02/2022-08/06/2022)
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      • Jodi Hoover (07/24/2021-08/21/2021)
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      • Johan Lowie (07/18/2020-08/22/2020)
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      • Michaela Flatley & Kristin Panousos (8/17/2019-9/21/2019)
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This page is a temporary page to give collectors a preview of the upcoming exhibit.
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Hal Boyd

Active Imagination



​Preview  (collector's advance viewing)

This preview gives you the opportunity to view and purchase the pieces in the exhibit before it opens to the public.
​Purchases are on a first contact basis, so consider a back up option if your first option is no longer available.

Opening Reception    January 14th, 2023    4pm-6pm
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Show runs from -
January 14th, 2023 - April 8th, 2023
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This preview highlights all of the pieces that will be on display in the exhibit as well as reserve pieces that will replace sold pieces as those paintings go home with collectors. As a member of our Collector's Preview list, you have the unique opportunity to see all of these pieces and have a first opportunity to purchase.


Additional images, or a video, to see the work from alternate angles are available upon request. 

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​To see the work in person, contact the gallery to schedule a visit, or stop by during gallery hours.
​Wednesdays 10am-2pm
Fridays 2pm-6pm

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A reminder, purchases are on a first contact basis, so consider a back up option if your first option is no longer available.

Thumbnails below may be cropped to fit a square shaped preview. Click image for a full view.
Active Imagination
48"x24", 2002, Acrylic on canvas
$375
 🔴 SOLD
Anima
30"x24", 2009, Acrylic on canvas
$350 
 🔴 SOLD
Black Hole
30"x24", 2017, Acrylic on canvas
$350
Chicken Paprika
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$225
Dog at the Edge of the Earth
36"x18", 2010, Acrylic on canvas
$275
Dreamer
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$225
Duet
48"x24", 2002, Acrylic on canvas
$375
Happy Dancer
14"x11", 2021, Acrylic on canvas
$95
Igloo
36"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Illusion
42"x28", 2009, Acrylic on hardboard
$475
Imaginary Playmates
24"x32", 2008, Acrylic on hardboard
$375
 🔴 SOLD
Magnetic Scotties
16"x20", 2021, Acrylic on canvas
$195
 🔴 SOLD
Mermaid
20"x16", 2012, Acrylic on canvas
$225
Moon Mountain
20"x24", 2016, Acrylic on canvas
$250
 🔴 SOLD
Name of the Father
42"x28", 2004, Acrylic on hardboard
$475 
 🔴 SOLD
Pastoral
36"x24", 2019, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Promised Land
36"x18", 2009, Acrylic on canvas
$275
Red Bench
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on canvas
$225
Red Chair
20"x16", 2021, Acrylic on canvas
$195
Sailor, his Ship and the Sea
30"x24", 2001, Acrylic on canvas
$275
Signifers
24”x18", 2022, Acrylic on canvas
$195
Six Characters
36"x24", 2021, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
 🔴 SOLD
Talkers
20”x16”, 2019, Acrylic on canvas
$195
 🔴 SOLD
Teachers with Lambs
24"x18", 2022, Acrylic on canvas
$195
Toilette
42”x28”, 2017, Acrylic on hardboard
$425
Trio
36"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Trundle Bed
24”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$225
We Have Ways
36”x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
 🔴 SOLD
Yellow Piano
24”x18”, 2020, Acrylic on canvas
$195
You Burn Me
36”x24", 2021, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325

Extras for exhibit

Almond Eye
10”x8”, 2013, Acrylic on canvas board
$95
Chopsticks
​14
”x11”, 2011, Acrylic on canvas board
$95
DIY Lobotomy
24”x32”, 2013, Acrylic on hard board
$350
Ikon
​36
”x24”, 2019, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Imp of Anomie
11”x14”, 2014, Acrylic on canvas board
$125
Ingenue
​36
”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Jungle
36”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel
$325
Prometheus
​24
”x18”, 2022, Acrylic on stretched canvas
$195


​Artist - Hal Boyd

Statement/Bio

“I want to make the art that is mine to make.”

Hal was born on October 5, 1934, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, a town that figures in the history of the blues. He grew up there and in Blytheville, Arkansas, another small city in the Mississippi River Delta. Blytheville was mildly renowned for its National Cotton-Picking Contest, an annual event.

Boyd enjoyed making art from an early age. In elementary school, he was enrolled briefly in a high school art class, since art was not taught in lower grades. He resented the teacher’s “correcting” his drawings. Adults commented sometimes on the way he “grew” his pictures. A Greyhound bus would begin, for example, with the left rear hubcap and develop from there.

Boyd studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the University of Nebraska and at the University of Mississippi, from which he graduated and where he pursued graduate studies in literature.

At Ole Miss, his teachers included abstract expressionist Jack Tworkov and major American sculptor David Smith. He honors his teachers, but thinks of himself as largely self-taught. “Boldness is the main thing I learned from artists like David Smith,” he says, “boldness and, in the case of Smith, welding.”

Boyd reads widely, fiction, but also philosophy, and psychology. “The unconscious fascinates me,” he says, “Freud’s dreams, Jung’s alchemy, Lacan’s objet petit a…” He has characterized his work as: “Grandma Moses meets Sigmund Freud.”

​Boyd has exhibited at the Forum Gallery in New York City, the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee, the Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Texas, in several Baltimore galleries, and in venues in North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and elsewhere. He moved to Baltimore County in July 2018, after living for twenty years in Brevard, North Carolina, and, before that, for thirty-two years in San Antonio, Texas.
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Website - ​https://www.halboyd.com/

Gallery Blue Door operates as a division of Arsenic Media LLC

Address

833 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201

Hours

Wednesdays 10am-2pm
Fridays 2pm-6pm
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*Also open for receptions
All other times by Appointment

Telephone

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Email

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    • Scott Philip Goergens (Resident Artist Exhibit)
    • 2023 >
      • Hal Boyd (01/14/2023-04/08/2023)
      • Linda Popp (01/28/2023-03/18/2023)
      • Jennifer McBrien (01/28/2023-03/18/2023)
      • David Thompson (03/25/2023-05/20/2023)
      • Phoebe Gilman (03/25/2023-05/20/2023)
      • Lania D'Agostino (04/15/2023-07/08/2023)
      • Scott G. Brooks (05/27/2023-07/29/2023)
      • Douglas Johnson (05/27/2023-07/29/2023)
      • Drury Bynum (07/15/2023-10/07/2023)
      • Lauren Silex (08/05/2023-09/23/2023)
      • Jennifer Shoemaker (09/30/2023-11/25/2023)
      • Tyler MItchell (10/14/2023-01/06/2024)
      • Josef Kardell (12/02/2023-2/03/2023)
      • Spencer Beals (09/30/2023-11/25/2023)
      • Zofie King (08/05/2023-09/23/2023)
    • 2022 >
      • Kelly L. Walker (01/15/2022-04/09/2022)
      • Robert Hoffman (01/15/2022-02/19/2022)
      • Markus (01/15/2022-02/19/2022)
      • Tracey Halvorsen (02/26/2022-05/14/2022)
      • James McDonald (02/26/2022-04/02/2022)
      • Matt Muirhead (04/09/2022-05/14/2022)
      • Scott G. Brooks (04/16/2022-07/09/2022)
      • Tricia Zimic (05/21/2022-06/25/2022)
      • Kevin Herdeman (05/21/2022-06/25/2022)
      • Osvaldo Mesa (07/02/2022-08/06/2022)
      • Patricia Tomes (07/02/2022-08/06/2022)
      • James Knill (07/16/2022-10/08/2022)
      • Henry Johnson (08/13/2022-10/29/2022)
      • Amanda Johnson (08/13/2022-10/29/2022)
      • Brian Truesdale (10/15/2022-01/07/2023)
      • Scott Ponemone (11/05/2022-01/21/2023)
      • Michelle Spiziri (11/05/2022-01/21/2023)
    • 2021 >
      • Ram Brisueno (01/23/2021-02/20/2021)
      • Tracy Lambros (03/20/2021-04/24/2021)
      • Ted Randler (05/29/2021-06/26/2021)
      • Jodi Hoover (07/24/2021-08/21/2021)
      • Andrea Huppert & Marianne Calenda (09/18/2021-10/23/2021)
      • Scott Philip Goergens (11/20/2021-12/18/2021)
    • 2020 >
      • Lola Flash (01/25/2020-02/22/2020)
      • Tracey Halvorsen (03/21/2020-04/25/2020)
      • Spoon Popkin (05/23/2020-06/20/2020)
      • Johan Lowie (07/18/2020-08/22/2020)
      • Minas Konsolas & Donald Depuydt (09/19/2020-10/17/2020)
      • Scott Philip Goergens (11/14/2020-12/12/2020)
    • 2019 >
      • Margaret Curnow (3/30/2019-5/4/2019)
      • Christopher Stephen Koch (5/18/2019-6/15/2019)
      • Tracy Lambros (6/29/2019-8/3/2019)
      • Michaela Flatley & Kristin Panousos (8/17/2019-9/21/2019)
      • Amanda Johnson (10/05/2019-11/09/2019)
      • Scott Philip Goergens (11/23/2019-12/14/2019)
    • 2018 >
      • Scott Philip Goergens (11/10/2018-12/15/2018)
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