Saturday, October 2, 2021
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP required
Reception with artist Jack Boul. The artist's family is asking that only guests fully vaccinated for COVID -19 attend this event.
For 70 years, Jack Boul has been one of the premiere artists in the Washington DC area, employing his exceptional talents in both painting and monotype to convey a deeply poetic sensibility. With restrained elegance, his small-scale works capture timeless elements of our visible world. Landscape fascinates him, from the bucolic pastures of Maryland and Virginia to the deserted beaches of North Carolina. Yet he is as attracted to the poetry of a gritty cityscape as he is to the countryside. He depicts such prosaic urban sights as water towers and train yards with the same acuity as he demonstrates when rendering the charm of a Parisian café or a Venetian canal. Boul’s artistic interests extend from barnyards to barbershops, from wheelbarrows to watering cans.
Many of the artist’s finest work center on the human figure and its myriad expressive possibilities. Whether he represents single figures lost in thought, or groups gathered in public settings, his depictions always speak to the artist’s profound understanding of the human condition. Although Boul’s art has remained steadfastly representational, he has always maintained that all art is essentially abstract, as much as about relationships as about the ostensible subject matter. Boul is concerned with the relationships of light and dark areas, the contrast of sharp to soft edges, the balance between depth and surface, and the geometry of composition.
Jack Boul’s paintings and monotypes are included in many museums and private collections, including the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museums of Fine Arts and the Phillips Collection. One of his paintings now hangs in the Drawing Room of the Governor’s Mansion in Annapolis.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in the South Bronx, Boul attended the American Artist’s School in New York, before being drafted into the United States Army. He moved to the Washington area in 1951 to study at American University where he later taught for many years. Boul had his first museum exhibition in 1974 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. He had a major retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the winter of 2001-01 as well as subsequent retrospective shows at American University’s Museum at the Katzen Arts Center and Stanford University’s Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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