January 2 2010 – January 31 2010
Jack Boul: Monotypes and Paintings
The Washington Printmakers Gallery and Washington Print Foundation are pleased to announce the 2010 Invitational Solo Artist Exhibition featuring monotypes and paintings by Jack Boul. Boul’s subject matter encompasses everything from wheel barrows, cows, and pastoral landscapes to urban scenes, interiors, and the human figure. Despite the wide range of subject matter, a care and mastery of technique unifies Boul’s entire body of work. Eric Denker, now senior lecturer at the National Gallery of Art and curator of Jack’s 2000 exhibition Intimate Impressions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, describes this unity in the exhibition’s introductory essay, saying: “[Boul’s] content is always tempered by an appreciation of the compositional structure that informs the finest old master painting…his monotypes and paintings seek the essence of their subjects, reducing the details of everyday surroundings to characteristic forms and gestures.”
Boul’s work is a perennial favorite of the greater DC area. With favorable reviews from the Washington Post and inclusion in such books as “A Guide to Drawing” by Mendelwitz, Wakeham, and Faber, his longevity as an artist is no surprise. As a testament to that fact, this is Boul’s second solo show at Washington Printmakers Gallery, as he was the inaugural artist in the gallery’s first Invitational Solo Artist Exhibition in 2003.
Jack Boul has been a DC area resident since the early 1950’s, showing work in area venues for the past fifty-eight years. Boul has over 25 years experience teaching at both American University and the Washington Studio School. In 1994 he retired from the Washington Studio School to devote his time exclusively to his art. Since then, he has shown multiple times at the Arts Club of Washington and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as the International School in Venice, Italy, and American University.
