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Adam Boyd’s work straddles mediums, temporalities, and references. His work aligns the archaic medium of textile in the form of traditional felting and quilting, with 3D-printing and lidar scanning technology: the futurism of his work is embedded in the present, which in turn is constantly sparking with the past. There are zones to these paintings, evoking the interlocking and overlapping, as well as the unhinging, of component parts. The different media the artist uses make up the various elements of the composition.
Science fiction is an important touchstone for Adam Boyd, whose work draws in art historical and pop cultural allusion: a theatre of the subliminal, as in David Salle’s bold reinvention of minimalism. The treatment of acrylic paint gives it a screened radiance: in these works there is the semblance of a portal, a circle of standing stones or a digital sifting of reality. His works are a point of departure spliced with a point of arrival, featuring the complementary aims of contrasting materials. They feature textiles seeking the abstract alongside digital photography preoccupied with tactile surfaces. Materials are a matter for the imagination; imagination is the material that makes something of matter.