CATSKILL NY .- Foreland is presenting “CHICANE,” a solo exhibition of new work by Henri Broyard on view from August 6–September 25, 2022. Broyard is the awardee of the 2022 Foreland Fellowship, selected from a highly competitive group of nearly 100 applicants by a panel including Ebony Haynes (Director, 52 Walker) and Lumi Tan (Senior Curator, The Kitchen) to receive a 1,000 square foot studio space at Foreland for six months.
In his work, Broyard investigates the history of painting and mark making in relation to the universe of fine art, while also examining how we perceive interior domestic space. An interior scene or a still-life serves as a point of departure to dig into abstraction, geometry, and personal history. Broyard’s compositions pull from found and family photos, screenshots of films, and his own digital photos, which he then crops, edits, and resizes into a physical or digital stencil. After transfering the composition to canvas or panel, the work evolves intuitively, almost as a stream of consciousness. For Broyard, his paintings serve as a record of quotidien encounters, and layered with images and textures from distant memories. He explains, “A reproduction of a spray painted mark made by a civil employee sits next to a shape of a vase lifted from Vermeer. Both can exist on the same plane without hierarchy.”
The Foreland Fellowship provides a free studio to an exceptional artist who identifies as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI or as a person of color. Foreland acknowledges that structural barriers exist to make participation in the art world more difficult for artists of color. The fellowship is part of an effort to develop a community that looks like the world we want to live in: strongly diverse, mutually supportive and culturally significant. In addition to the studio, the fellowship includes professional development opportunities such as studio visits with curators and/or galleries. The 2021 recipient was mixed-media artist Alisa Sikelianos-Carter.
Henri Broyard (b. 1989, Los Angeles) received a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from the California College of the Arts in 2013. He attended the Klasse Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, in 2014. His work has shown in exhibitions at galleries including: Grant Wahlquist Gallery (Portland, Maine); Alexander Gray Gallery (New York); Essex Flowers (New York); SOLA Art Gallery (Los Angeles); the School of Painting Hangzhou (China); and Tom Dick or Harry (Dusseldorf), amongst others. Broyard lives and works in Canaan and Brooklyn, New York.
