Artist Statement
My work is fueled by my fine art background and characterized by a personal and intense focus on the detail of the everyday, documenting its intrinsic beauty. Through my imagery, I hope to tell stories that challenge common perception and inspire curiosity to explore each subject further.
Process Statement
Finding Chinatown started with transparency film and ilfa/cibachrome prints, then continued in digital capture & fine art printing. More recent projects are adding in layers of selected non-photo ephemera with accompanying publishing projects, but the print is always primary.
SARA JANE BOYERS is a California fine art photographer who, after careers in both the music and publishing industries, has returned to a serious focus on her photography. In her work Boyers searches for that iconic element of ordinary experience that defines the whole, choosing to render it subtly and with a sense of beauty that is provocative and demanding.
Her recent solo exhibition at the Craig Krull Gallery - FINDING CHINATOWN, showcasing her decade-long project on the Chinatowns of the United States & Canada - was critically acclaimed. Other work has been also noted and included in museums, galleries and photo festivals including a GETTY PST exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum; DESIGN/REACTION at the Pasadena Museum of California Museum of Art; the Australian biennial, FOTOFREO, and various group exhibitions,including SUMMER MIX, co-curated by Boyers for LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Photography Department.
Other continuing projects include GRIDLOCK, a series of photographs shot from Boyers' car window while stuck in traffic; DETROIT: DEFINITION, a study of her birth city as it again arises, using family landmarks as the construct for photographic exploration; SACRED, SILENT & WAITING, a contemplation of light, empty space and presence; and REVISIT/RENEW/NEW, an architectural contemplation on mid-century Modernist and 21st Century architecture, including the 747 HOUSE, an exploration of an architecturally significant experiment in repurposing.
Her photos reside in public and private collections and are published in magazines, books and respected online media.
Sara Jane Boyers is also a writer/editor with books and poetry published. Her first book, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, the award-winning pairing of Jean-Michel Basquiat's expressive artwork with a stirring 1978 poem by Maya Angelou, was conceived and designed by Boyers almost two decades ago and recently called a "contemporary classic." In connection with the Basquiat touring retrospective, Boyers conducted artist workshops based upon LIFE at the invitation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH).
As both a photographer and writer, Boyers has published catalogues & magazines on her photographic work, contributes to print journals and websites, makes keynotes and maintains ongoing newsletter/blogs at:
www.sarajaneboyersphoto.com
www.sarajaneboyersisaloud.blogspot.com
www.detroitdefinition.blogspot.com
www.findingchinatown.blogspot.com
www.teenpowerpolitics.com
www.sarajaneboyers.com
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