http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html ©2006  VANESSA BOYD SCREAM SERIES, ODDS & ENDS   REVIEW:  Boyd’s work is primitive yet sophisticated in that she is self-taught but educated.  “Brick Couple” is the most outsider art piece, while the others are more versed in symbolic forms.  Aside from the sexual imagery, the predominant impression is curvilineal.  Boyd uses both organic and mechanical lines to gain fluidity.  They produce a reduction and simplicity that explores volumetric shapes, retaining that volume through chiaroscuro shading.  This exploration rests inside the self, although multiple figures are sometimes presented.  It is the spatial relationship between the others and the self, and the exploration of volume through line, that maintains the tensions within the inner space.  Many of these figures tend to take a more phallic than vaginal expression of sexual imagery, yet the work overall brings to mind feminist artists such as Judy Chicago or Miriam Shapiro.   -  Wanda Rahm, Museums of Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN   ARTIST STATEMENT: These pieces started as an attempt at a self-portrait, and grew into an exploration of sexuality, sensuality and growth.  There is certainly an over-arching feminine/female theme with varying degrees of positive versus negative emotions.  Pieces are done with colored pencil &/or pastel pencils.  They are a period of work from 2001-2006.   All are dry mounted, matted and framed and ready to be hung and sold.  Framed they are sized mostly at 11X14” or 16X20”. http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#0 4f9cb5b8-5064-4bd5-9c8e-6d9d378bc7e1 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Accident/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Accident/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Accident</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#1 f2b632cb-f742-4d99-abc8-daa1e816e833 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Aging/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Aging/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Aging</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#2 e54b8964-321f-40e5-9824-f2f0d0c1a990 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Balancing/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Balancing/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Balancing</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#3 dce8b14e-9255-4e40-95ba-239ed26da4ce http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Bent%20Woman/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Bent%20Woman/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Bent Woman (SOLD)</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#4 8c5a2c81-c8bc-4233-b22a-ee1b2ca7f6f0 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Breaking%20Free/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Breaking%20Free/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Breaking Free</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#5 efb870bf-93fd-419d-96c9-e2ce391f6bbe http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Brick%20Couple/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Brick%20Couple/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Brick Couple (SOLD)</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#6 1e84e7ef-200d-4513-ab5d-896f288dc65a http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Choking%20Vine/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Choking%20Vine/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Choking Vine</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#7 b022e33c-406c-4baa-b3d6-bad792116c14 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Couple/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Couple/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Couple</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#8 fa43dff5-bae7-4545-9865-586e388a28c5 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Discovering/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Discovering/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Discovering</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#9 e3459b8e-d55a-4131-8369-398c9579778f http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Goddess/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Goddess/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Goddess</p></div></div> http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings.html#10 bbdb7dce-1947-4b8c-9937-7fecbf0288a5 http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Hairball/thumb.jpg http://www.vanessaboyd.com/Art/Drawings_files/Media/Hairball/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; 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