Jennifer Boyd

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blue light

Izzy, 2019

Oil on panel 29 x 24 inches _____ The Blue Light series references portraiture from the Dutch Golden Age. The dramatic stillness of the composition is lit not by a window or candle as is traditional, but by the blue light emanating from the subject’s device. Blue light, which has quickly become the defining new light of portraiture, is a potentially problematic wavelength of light very closely aligned to ultraviolet light—the long term effects of which remain to be seen.

Anniversary Dinner, 2019

Oil on panel 26 x 36 inches

Harold, 2019

Oil on panel 26 x 48 inches

In Between, 2019

Oil on panel 30 x 42 inches