LaShae Boyd was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Cleveland and Columbus. She graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2019. Boyd is a professional artist with a focus in painting and sculpture who has exhibited artwork in Columbus, Cleveland and San Francisco. Boyd has been published in 614Magazine and has been recently featured in Shoutout LA. Boyd was recently chosen to create the signature piece for Art Celebration at the Columbus Museum of Art. She will be featured in the newest edition of New American Painting, issue 167. Her work will also be featured in the Havana Biennial in 2024.
“Art can raise awareness and infuse the community with love and unity. ”
LaShae Boyd is an African-American contemporary mixed media artist known primarily for making figurative work using acrylic, oil, collage and sculpture. Boyd’s staged subjects depict her own unique visual language of dissecting the human psyche, leading to a spiritual transcendent experience. Boyd takes influence on Carl Jung’s theory of the “shadow self” (repressed feelings of pain and fear left un-acknowledged) and utilizes it as a source to create balance between the conscious and unconscious aspects of self. Boyd explores this balance while asking the question if this could lead to a close connection with a higher power beyond a materialized world. While using her influences by art movements such as expressionism and surrealism, Boyd implements a bright and saturated complementary-based color palette to define each of her magenta-monochromatic skinned subjects as peculiar human beings having a spiritual experience as they under-go introspection. Digital distorted photographs of the subject are intentionally collaged showing the exposure of their “inner darkness” waiting to be embraced. Boyd will often mimic aesthetics of Pop-Art in her work using repetitive imagery of an opaque-colored wash silhouette or outlines of the subject’s body literally and figuratively adding layers to the narratives being told within each individual being depicted. Boyd creates each work of art with the urge to open space for conversations surrounding self-transformation through a metaphysical microscope.