A reception on Saturday, Dec. 2, will open Marc Boyson's exhibit "Our Land is Your Land is My Land" at the Association for Visual Arts, 30 Frazier Ave. The reception will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the gallery.
"Every other year, we have a juried member show. Whoever is considered the best of that show gets a solo show the following year," explains Kreneshia Whiteside, AVA chief curator, of Boyson's solo exhibition.
Boyson, a professor of art at Southern Adventist University, creates cartographic trace, a form of abstract art and expressionism. This entire show is done in black and white.
"As a child, I remember going on long car rides on weekends. I have fond memories watching the scenery outside the passenger window," Boyson says in his artist's statement.
"This joy of exploring with a car continued as I began to drive, taking up the weekend jaunt on my own, exploring roads never traveled before, with no apparent destination in mind. This contrast of moving through space with freedom now confined to the chronic route of the daily commute is a part of my practice.
"The cartographic trace refers to the invisible line of autobiographical data revealing my daily journey however small, over a surface, between buildings, to work, errands, day trips, or longer excursions, the everyday as art. The question I seek to answer through memory, intuition and digital recording is: How can I manifest the ordinary act of the cartographic trace into the beautiful?"
The exhibit opens Friday, Dec. 1, and continues through Jan. 5.
For more information: 423-265-4282.