SARA JANE BOYERS is a California fine art photographer who, after successful careers in the music and publishing industries, has returned to a serious focus on her photography. In her work Boyers searches for that iconic element of ordinary experience that defines the whole, choosing to render it subtly and with a sense of beauty that is provocative and demanding.
Her recent solo exhibition at the Craig Krull Gallery - FINDING CHINATOWN, showcasing her decade-long project on the Chinatowns of the United States & Canada - was critically acclaimed. Other work has been included in museums, galleries and photo festivals including a GETTY PST exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum; Western Australia's FOTOFREO Biennial; DESIGN/REACTION at the Pasadena Museum of California Museum of Art; as well as two MOPLA exhibitions, the second organized and co-curated by Boyers; WATER TO PAPER: PAINT TO SKY just closed at SF's Walt Disney Family Museum and to open Spring 2015 at NYC's Museum of Chinese in America, and SUMMER MIX, also co-curated by Boyers for LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Photography Department.
Other continuing projects include GRIDLOCK, a series of photographs shot from Boyers' car window while stuck in traffic; DETROIT: DEFINITION, a study of her birth city as it again arises, using family landmarks as the construct for photographic exploration; SACRED, SILENT & WAITING, a contemplation of light, empty space and presence; and REVISIT_RENEW_NEW, an architectural exploration that also includes the 747 HOUSE, an architecturally significant experiment in repurposing. She is the recipient of two 2011 and four 2012 IPA Honorable Mentions for her work and an ASMP/AIA award/AIA exhibition for Best of the Year 2012.
Her photographs reside in public and private collections and are published in magazines, books and respected online media.
Sara Jane Boyers is also a writer/editor with books and poetry published. Her first book, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, the award-winning pairing of Jean-Michel Basquiat's expressive artwork with a stirring 1978 poem by Maya Angelou, was conceived and designed by Boyers almost two decades ago and recently called a "contemporary classic." In connection with the Basquiat touring retrospective, Boyers conducted artist workshops based upon LIFE at the invitation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH).
In addition to photographic publication, Boyers contributes to print journals and websites, makes keynotes and maintains ongoing newsletter/blogs at SaraJaneBoyersAloud
Après une carrière brillante dans l’industrie de la musique et de l’édition, Sara Jane Boyer revient à sa première passion : la photographie.
Le travail de cette artiste américaine aborde avant tout le thème de la vie urbaine contemporaine de son pays. Ce vif intérêt pour l’architecture est à l’origine de nombreuses séries photographiques telles que «Gridlock « donnant à voir aux spectateurs une image assez noire de Los Angeles ou encore «Detroit: Definition »
A travers la série Detroit:Definition, Sara Jane Boyer part à la conquête de sa ville natale, à la recherche des lieux emblématiques de la vie de son défunt père. A partir de ce proces...
I speak about how detail and space affects the worlds I photograph. So too am I affected by one’s daily surrounding me. Gridlock is such a series.
About being a Californian. About being in a car. About traffic.
I am photographing from my driver’s window, first with my viewfinder-less Leica D-Lux 3, and now the D-Lux 5. Stopped. Crawling. Trapped. Riding on the clutch as I stay in 1st should the flow move on. Immobile in a place of presumed mobility. Hoping to catch that elusive abstraction even while those behind me glower and gently nudge my car along. Whether LA freeways or the A8/A10 from Nice to Genoa, traffic feels like home.
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