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Active Imagination


Opening Reception    January 14th, 2023    4pm-6pm
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Show runs from -
January 14th, 2023 - April 8th, 2023
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​Artist - Hal Boyd

Bio/Statement

“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/

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  • Home
  • Exhibits
    • Scott Philip Goergens (Resident Artist Exhibit)
    • 2025 >
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      • Tracy Lambros (01/25/2025-03/22/2025)
      • Francisco Pham (03/29/2025-05/24/2025)
      • Jose Perez (03/29/2025-05/24/2025)
      • Baltimore School of the Arts Photograph Class exhibit (04/26/2025-05/10/2025)
      • Hal Boyd (05/17/2025-07/26/2025)
      • Matt Voelker (05/31/2025-07/26/2025)
      • Maremi Andreozzi (05/31/2025-07/26/2025)
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      • Daniel Lawrence Brown (2/10/2024-4/13/2024)
      • David Brewster (4/20/2024-7/13/2024)
      • Albert Schweitzer (4/20/2024-6/08/2024)
      • James McDonald (4/20/2024-6/08/2024)
      • 2024 - "PRIDE" group exhibit at Emmanuel Episcopal
      • Julia Gould (6/29/2024-9/07/2024)
      • Nancy Keene Fishel (6/29/2024-9/07/2024)
      • Sherry Insley (7/20/2024-10/12/2024)
      • Alexandra N Sherman (9/14/2024-11/9/2024)
      • Steph Stevenson (9/14/2024-11/9/2024)
      • Carl Yonder (10/19/2024-1/18/2025)
      • Shawn Adomanis (11/16/2024-1/18/2025)
      • Guy Kuhn (11/16/2024-1/18/2025)
    • 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)
      • Zofie King (08/05/2023-09/23/2023)
      • Lauren Silex (08/05/2023-09/23/2023)
      • Spencer Beals (09/30/2023-11/25/2023)
      • Jennifer Shoemaker (09/30/2023-11/25/2023)
      • Tyler MItchell (10/14/2023-01/06/2024)
      • Josef Kardell (12/02/2023-2/03/2024)
      • David Roesner (12/02/2023-2/03/2024)
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      • Robert Hoffman (01/15/2022-02/19/2022)
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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)
      • 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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