Porcelain Provocations

摘要

Shary Boyle's work blends her interest in the environment, traditional porcelain figurines, and her concern for social issues. Inherent in the work is the recognition that, as Boyle observes, 'What is seen as exquisite beauty and the grotesque becomes quite arbitrary' Boyle's work, as a consequence, forever teeters on perception's precipice -is her work fine art, kitsch, sublime, monstrous, or a new hybrid?