This page is a temporary page to give collectors a preview of the upcoming exhibit.
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.
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
Show runs from -
January 14th, 2023 - April 8th, 2023
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.
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
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
Call or email to make a purchase or schedule a visit to the gallery.
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.
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.
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Active Imagination
48"x24", 2002, Acrylic on canvas $375 🔴 SOLD |
Anima
30"x24", 2009, Acrylic on canvas $350 🔴 SOLD |
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Black Hole
30"x24", 2017, Acrylic on canvas $350 |
Chicken Paprika
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $225 |
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Dog at the Edge of the Earth
36"x18", 2010, Acrylic on canvas $275 |
Dreamer
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $225 |
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Duet
48"x24", 2002, Acrylic on canvas $375 |
Happy Dancer
14"x11", 2021, Acrylic on canvas $95 |
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Igloo
36"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
Illusion
42"x28", 2009, Acrylic on hardboard $475 🔴 SOLD |
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Imaginary Playmates
24"x32", 2008, Acrylic on hardboard $375 🔴 SOLD |
Magnetic Scotties
16"x20", 2021, Acrylic on canvas $195 🔴 SOLD |
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Mermaid
20"x16", 2012, Acrylic on canvas $225 🔴 SOLD |
Moon Mountain
20"x24", 2016, Acrylic on canvas $250 🔴 SOLD |
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Name of the Father
42"x28", 2004, Acrylic on hardboard $475 🔴 SOLD |
Pastoral
36"x24", 2019, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
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Promised Land
36"x18", 2009, Acrylic on canvas $275 |
Red Bench
24"x24", 2022, Acrylic on canvas $225 |
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Red Chair
20"x16", 2021, Acrylic on canvas $195 |
Sailor, his Ship and the Sea
30"x24", 2001, Acrylic on canvas $275 |
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Signifers
24”x18", 2022, Acrylic on canvas $195 |
Six Characters
36"x24", 2021, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 🔴 SOLD |
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Talkers
20”x16”, 2019, Acrylic on canvas $195 🔴 SOLD |
Teachers with Lambs
24"x18", 2022, Acrylic on canvas $195 🔴 SOLD |
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Toilette
42”x28”, 2017, Acrylic on hardboard $425 |
Trio
36"x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
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Trundle Bed
24”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $225 |
We Have Ways
36”x24", 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 🔴 SOLD |
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Yellow Piano
24”x18”, 2020, Acrylic on canvas $195 |
You Burn Me
36”x24", 2021, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
Extras for exhibit
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Almond Eye
10”x8”, 2013, Acrylic on canvas board $95 |
Chopsticks
14”x11”, 2011, Acrylic on canvas board $95 |
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DIY Lobotomy
24”x32”, 2013, Acrylic on hard board $350 |
Ikon
36”x24”, 2019, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
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Imp of Anomie
11”x14”, 2014, Acrylic on canvas board $125 |
Ingenue
36”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
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Jungle
36”x24”, 2022, Acrylic on cradled wood panel $325 |
Prometheus
24”x18”, 2022, Acrylic on stretched canvas $195 🔴 SOLD |
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.
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.
Website - https://www.halboyd.com/