Frank Boyden Oregon Bronze Branches & Fish Art Sculpture on Marble Base

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Frank Boyden (Pacific NW) art sculpture consisting of bronze jutting branches on marble base. Measures 20" X 8 1/4" X … Read more Frank Boyden (Pacific NW) art sculpture consisting of bronze jutting branches on marble base. Measures 20" X 8 1/4" X 8 1/2" tall.

Unsigned. This is under consignment from an estate who was close friends with Boyden.

As found: Frank Boyden (American, born 1942) works in ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, and public art. He founded Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in 1970 and the Margery Davis Boyden writing residency program in 1991. He and his wife Jane live at the mouth of the Salmon River on the Oregon coast. Boyden’s artistic practices reflect his lifelong interests in the environment and the biological sciences. He received degrees from Colorado College and Yale University.

His art often draws inspiration from the natural environment and wildlife of the Oregon coast, where he resides

In 1989 Boyden started to produce cast bronze works and in 1991 he was awarded several large commissions. Among these are the Vietnam Memorial on a cliff above the ocean at Newport, Oregon, the monumental bronze pieces at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon and the production of a garden with standing stones and bronze pieces at the forensics building of the Oregon State Hospital. Since then Boyden has produced monumental wind pieces in Portland, designed and made the William Stafford Memorial Standing Stones on a point overlooking the Willamette River in Lake Oswego, Oregon, and in collaboration with his friend and sculptor Brad Rude of Walla Walla, Washington, designed and made highly complex installations at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland, Oregon and the Interactivator Tables that accompany all stations of the TriMet Commuter Rail line from Beaverton to Wilsonville, Oregon.

It seems appropriate to say that much of the success of the public art and sculpture stems from Boyden’s long held belief that his art reflect and literally grow from the immediate environment it was conceived to inhabit. Perhaps this attitude comes from the same attention he has given his intimate place-based work in ceramics. With the sculpture and public art there is never a sense that an object has been made beyond the place where it exists. Everything is in context.

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