• Hilary Doyle - Metrapolis

    August 14 - September 4
  • Taymour Grahne is pleased to present Metrapolis an online solo exhibition by Hilary Doyle, launching virtually on August 14, 2020.

    Taymour Grahne is pleased to present Metrapolis

    an online solo exhibition by Hilary Doyle,

    launching virtually on

    August 14, 2020.

     

  • Hilary Doyle b. Worcester, MA, USA Lives and works in NYC Hilary Doyle received an MFA from Rhode Island School...

    Hilary Doyle

    b. Worcester, MA, USA

    Lives and works in NYC

     

    Hilary Doyle received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    Doyle has recently exhibited at spaces such as Public Swim, Monya Rowe Gallery, and Field Projects. She has had solo shows at One River School, The Active Space and Brown University. Her work has received press coverage in Hyperallergic, Bushwick Daily, and New American Paintings Blog.

     

    Hilary is faculty at Rhode Island School of Design and Purchase College. She founded and directs NYC Crit Club with co-director Catherine Haggarty and is a gallery Co-Director at Transmitter gallery. 

     

    Currently lives and works in Greenpoint Brooklyn.

     

    Hilary's works are in the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.




     

    • Taymour Grahne is pleased to present 'Metrapolis', an online solo show by NYC-based artist Hilary Doyle, launching virtually on August 14, 2020.

       

      'Metrapolis' includes a series of paintings that investigate the personal and collective experiences of people as they navigate public urban spaces. Hilary Doyle's paintings follow fragmented narratives, mainly of women, commuting within the dreamlike labyrinth of an imagined subway. For Doyle, urban spaces are both public and private, both banal and shocking, both beautiful and ugly.

       

      The subway is a representation of the contrasting emotions experienced during unstable times. 

    • The work examines the emotions, psychology, and rituals of daily life. Since the pandemic, the work has grown more surreal, epic, dystopian, and imaginary. Depicting women at various points in their lives, the paintings question the many roles women play. The works bring the untold, personal narratives into a shared space.

       

      The work starts with mundane moments observed by Doyle often while commuting from teaching at RISD or Purchase college. From quick sketches, videos, and iPhone drawings, the artist then creates monotypes and sculptural models that inform the paintings. Doyle experiments with materials for the most authentic mark to capture the psychology and materiality of each subject.

    • The work draws from a range of direct and indirect references, including Otto Dix, Elizabeth Murray, George Tooker, Isabelle Bishop, Jacob Lawrence, Red Grooms, and Lucas Cranach. Hell/ Massacre of the innocents references paintings that are historically remade in times of extreme hardship and violence against the innocent. Books that Inspired the work include: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez, When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone, Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig and Dante’s Inferno.

       

      **10% of the sale proceeds from Hilary Doyle’s online solo will be donated to the Lebanese Red Cross to aid them in their efforts in dealing with the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion.

  • The subway is a representation of the contrasting emotions experienced during unstable times. The work examines the emotions, psychology, and...

    The subway is a representation of the contrasting emotions experienced during unstable times. The work examines the emotions, psychology, and rituals of daily life. 

  • The works bring the untold, personal narratives into a shared space.

    The works bring the untold, personal narratives into a shared space.

  •
  • Depicting women at various points in their lives, the paintings question the many roles women play.

    Depicting women at various points in their lives, the paintings question the many roles women play.

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  • Paintings

  • Please click here for Hilary Doyle's CV.