Shary Boyle (born May 26, 1972 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She currently lives and works in Toronto.
Art is something about the spirit. . . if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it. . . if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.
I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.
It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.
I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.
For me, it really is about a dialogue. Life can be really isolating or terrifying or euphoric - it's all these things. And while I'm here I want to have an exchange. I want something to vibrate. And I want to be really stimulated.
Dennis Chavez
David R. Brower
John Forbes Nash
Raymond Keene
Elia Kazan
George Arundale
Francesco Cossiga
Varlam Shalamov
Paul D. Boyer
William H. Prescott
Sabrina Jeffries
James Donald