Addie Boyd
BFA 2020
straining spout, 2020. Copper, oil pastel, colored pencil.
Artist Statement
Here is an appendage. A brace for what will surely come. To reinforce a weak joint or to cuddle your breaking point. Here is machinery copulating. A thimble and a soft saddle embrace on the strength of phillip’s head. Here is a precautionary handout to carry on your person until you or another cries out for it.
My practice guides me in navigating a world composed of rigid systems I am a part of but do not feel accepted within. I am always relearning that my parameters are rearrangeable and that I can transform the space in which I am allowed to exist.
knob, 2019. Enamel on copper, spray paint, rubber.
portable drain, 2019. Enamel on copper, oil pastel, graphite, polymer clay, brass.
fruit in the rush, 2020. Digital collage: rubber, copper, graphite, plastic, oil pastel, enamel on copper.
things I will be sure of, in time, 2020. Digital collage with poem.
Bio
Addie Boyd makes plug spouts, gasket handles, and quiet screws and is sometimes a metalsmith. Addie currently lives in Providence, RI where they enjoy relearning the dance of hide and seek and mending what has broken. If you look close enough, you will see Addie performing a clumsy salute to all that they admire from afar and to what they have yet to become.
www.addieboyd.com
Instagram: @addiewboy