NYAB Event - Derek Boshier "Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton"

Derek Boshier "Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton"

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Flowers presents a collection of Derek Boshier’s most recent paintings titled, Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton. This series is a continuation of Boshier’s extensive career, which began with the Pop Art movement in the 1960s and has endured and evolved over several decades.

Derek Boshier was born in England in 1937 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London with David Hockney, Allen Jones, and R.B. Kitaj. His paintings gained acclaim while he was still a student and Boshier was featured in Ken Russell’s film “Pop Goes The Easel” (1962) alongside fellow British Pop artists Peter Blake, Peter Philips and Pauline Boty. Over the course of his career, Boshier has worked across many media including installation art, graphic design and film.

With Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Boshier reconciles the principles of the 1960s Pop Art movement with the technological realities of the modern era. The series contemporizes the spirit of the movement by depicting Pop in digital formats. His self-described “preoccupation with popular culture” is evident in these works; Boshier’s pieces reference icons of the art community while also engaging with the spectacle of mass media and paparazzi. The dualities inherent in Boshier’s subject matter are evidenced by his stylistic choices in these paintings. Achieving a state of organized randomness, subtle grays contrast with the bright luminosity of iPhone screens on the canvas.