Jennifer Boysen - Bone Cloud

Jennifer Boysen

Bone Cloud

On view August 23 – October 04 2024

Placed ends the summer with "Bone Cloud," an exhibition of works by Jennifer Boysen. 

Boysen’s latest works are inspired by the remote and extreme landscapes of Montana. These pieces are made by stretching linen over fabricated forms. It is not what has been hidden by the fabric that matters but what comes to light: when viewed at different angles, the structural elements cast changing shadows across the work, suggesting hidden depths and mysterious figures. Their matte surfaces produce subtleties of color that deepen with the viewer’s contemplation. Boysen asks us to consider what lies beneath our understanding. They are archeological in their excavating of emotional resonances, and geographical in their mapping of Montana’s secret contours. 

Boysen uses few elements to evoke large presences: vast fields of snow that soften the sharpness of objects, veiling their form to reveal a truer form within.

Jennifer Boysen was born in Iowa in 1976 and received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY in 2002. Her work, internationally and locally exhibited, is in collections at the LACMA and Marciano Art Foundation. She has received a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant and a grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She has been reviewed by the LA Times, Art Review, and Art Forum as well as other contemporary art publications. Boysen currently lives, works, and teaches in Montana.