Dallas Art Fair
April 21 to 24, 2022
Booth C3
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Travis Boyer
The Valley is pleased to present new works by Travis Boyer at the Dallas Art Fair in Dallas, TX, taking place from April 21-24, 2022. Our presentation at the Dallas Art Fair will include several new works from Boyer’s mushroom series. Created with dye on silk velvet, the surfaces of these works are soft and shimmery, akin to the surface of the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body itself. Sensuous in both subject matter and material, these paintings evoke forbidden, taboo, and trippy, asking the viewer to examine their associations and explore their curiosity. This will be the gallery's first collaboration with Travis Boyer, and a homecoming for the artist to his home state.
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Travis Boyer (b. 1979, Fort Worth, TX) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an BFA in Fibers from UNT and he received his MFA with concentration in painting from Bard College in 2012. Boyer’s practice employs a range of media and methods: from painting, textile, sculpture, photography, to idiosyncratic collaborative projects. While diverse in form, this body of work is fundamentally grounded in textiles. Boyers paintings are in the permanent collections of the The High Museum, Atlanta, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Hood Museum. Boyer has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries including The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The New Museum, New York; Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Holland; The Goethe Institute, New York; High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, California, SOMA Arts, San Francisco; CAMH, Houston; False Flag Gallery, New York; Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York; Participant Inc., New York; Dumbo Arts Center, New York; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, as well as Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy and Piso 51, Mexico City, Mexico, among others. He was among the first artists awarded the Fire Island Artist Residency.
