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September Issue 2003
Rabold Gallery in Aiken, SC, Features Works by Jim Boden
Human relationships and intimacy find expression in two complementary but distinctive bodies of work by art professor Jim Boden on exhibit at Rabold Gallery in Aiken, SC, from Sept. 18 through Nov. 15, 2003.
Boden's 1+1<>2 Series is an exhibition of figurative drawings in oil on Mylar. Two pieces from this body of work were honored, one with the Grand Prix at the International Drawing Biennale in Melbourne, Australia, and another with the Award of Merit at the Biennial Drawing Exhibition at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. Both pieces were purchased for the permanent collections of the event organizers.
Remaining pieces from the series toured Randolph and Lexington, NC, earlier this year in a juried exhibition titled Body Language, which featured figurative works by 10 artists from across the nation.
The title 1+1<>2 is based on the contradictory statements "the whole is less than the sum of its parts" and "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Works in the series explore this conflict as it exists in relationships.
The series investigates the politics, dance, and gymnastics of relationships. Elements considered are time, movement, and space. The artist suggests conflicts such as support and suppression, attraction and repulsion, and physical needs and emotional needs. The individual pieces hint at a sequence, like cinematic stills of a film in progress.
The second exhibition includes key selections from another body of work titled Sublimity of Flesh. Boden has produced evocative color fields in oil on canvas that suggest passing or absorbing through a membrane, which serves as a metaphor for human intimacy. Boden describes the delicate work as "one foot toward the sublime, the other anchored in the concrete."
The membranes are created by pigmented strata, suggesting the intermediary of the external and the internal. Figure fragments, vessel chards, and slivers of clarity evoke desire, sensuality, memory, and loss.
Boden began to teach drawing, painting, and photography at Coker College in Hartsville, SC, in 1999, after graduate assistant teaching at the University of Cincinnati for a year. He previously worked as an art professional for 20 years in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and has participated in nearly 20 solo and 70 group exhibitions since 1974.
Rabold Gallery opened in May 2003 representing 20 regional artists.
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