Keith Boyle:
Paintings and Constructions
Artist Bio
Keith Boyle was born in 1930 in Defiance, Ohio. He attended both the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Boyle taught at Stanford for many years before retiring to Southern Oregon where he and his wife tended to a flock of colored sheep with their Australian Shepard Dogs until Boyle’s death in 2002. Boyle’s artistic explorations involved paintings and sculptures that examined organic shapes and structures. His work garnered much interest over the years and is in the permanent collections of such museums as The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibition Statement
Keith Boyle’s work explored formal principles of painting and sculptural abstraction using wood components of both rough-hewn and meticulously crafted elements. Boyle was professor of painting at Stanford University and chaired Stanford’s Graduate Studio Program for five years. He exhibited extensively nationwide. He and his wife then moved to Southern Oregon where they lived for 16 years. The influences of his rural surroundings became evident in much of his later work.
