Jarvis Boyland’s work contemplates the past to help us question how we romanticize it. His figurative paintings and drawings conjure retro environments that evoke the 1970s. Through his idyllic color palette and delicate rendering of textiles and flesh, Boyland offers moments of personal reconciliation that traverse time. 

Over the years, Boyland has negotiated aspects of his Southern religious upbringing through aspirational images of Black relationships. His sensitively rendered portraits of people from his community, often situated in fictitious domestic environments, consider gender and intimacy. 

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