Eric Boyer
Art has always been a part of my life, growing up with an art teacher for a father and inheriting genes from my professional
artist grandfather. But drawing and sculpting with paper, clay and wood were something I reserved for my free time.
In 1985 I started to explore metals, while employed in a metal working shop. There I learned to forge and weld. Among the media I worked with was fireplace screen. Being fond of salvaged materials, I began to play with left over scraps of the #8 mesh.
Being attracted artistically to the human form, I began to sculpt figures. At first small and rather timid, they began to attract attention, resulting in my first exhibition, in 1989, of 3/4 life-size figures on Art on the Mountain in Wilmington, Vermont.
Working with mesh still fascinates me. I create to share the beauty of the figure and the emotional vocabulary it speaks. Perhaps I am a victim of Western thought and it's classical mind/body duality. If so, the creative process itself is originating from the mind which dwells in the body rather than the brain, leaving those cerebral functions for attendant duties like measurement, mechanics and the business side of things.
My hope is that my viewers will be struck by the beauty of the physical body and moved by its expressive power, while appreciating the innovative and unique visual characteristics of my chosen medium.