In this piece, an animal skull rests in an escutcheon of verdant leaves, all in a black frame, with renaissance-flueroned corners. Bill Boyce is represented by four pieces in this show. Much of the work of Boyce emerges from the associations suggested by the found materials, but the results are far from random. Boyce is one of an increasing number of artists who have come to recycling 'found objects' into art. Boyce does so with conscious intent, and not mere aesthetic preference.
Negative images have a way of coming alive just as positive images have.
Boyce aims at technological waste and contemporary arrogance against the environment. He is seeking out a means to recycle technology into a new culture, and in a more overt and synthetic manner, his work reveals inspirational affinities with Joseph McIlhany. The sculptures of Joseph McIlhany are compositions fashioned from natural specimens and found artifacts. McIlhany's work offers aesthetic pleasure, but it also illustrates an aspect of art which is vital to contemporary approach and practice, namely, the interplay between an artist's initial perceptions and his media. Earlier art traditions have held that each medium has unique strengths and unique failings, and this is usually the case.