Boyd Gavin
Biography Video
Boyd Gavin has been a presence in the Northern California art scene since his 1975 solo debut, at the age of 16, at the Crocker Art Museum. Gavin is one of the few mid career artists who is closely associated with the region's first generation of influential painters, including Wayne Thiebaud, Greg Kondos, Jack Ogden and Jerald Silva (two early mentors), as well as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff. In these artists, Gavin identified with the respectful and reserved approach toward the subject, an attitude that he projects in his own compositions. The manner in which he both captures the reality of age and beauty, while retaining the dignity of each subject, however, is distinctly his own. Paintings of flowers, fruit, glass containers, newspapers and crayons are among his most charming compositions. Most readily apparent in these works is a sense of time, of the temporal aspects of nature. His attention to even the most insignificant objects is one of the most interesting aspects of Gavin's works.
Education
- 1980 University of California-Santa Cruz, CA, Bachelor of Arts
- 1991 California State University, Sacramento, CA, Masters of Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
- 2007 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
- 2006 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
- 2006 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
- 2004 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
- 2001 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1999 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1996 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1994 Thomas Babeor & Co., La Jolla, CA
- 1992 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1991 E. B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- 1987 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1986 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1985 Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1984 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1983 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1982 E. B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- 1981 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- 1980 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Davis, CA
- 1979 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
- 1977 E. B. Crocker Art Museum, “Kingsley Art Annual”, Sacramento,CA