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Rather than still lifes or documentation, these lush works explore the eros of observation and drawing through a shared point of reference: the intimate lives of mushrooms. The tactile silk velvet surfaces hold the same delicate, easily crushed tension as the underside gills of mushrooms. Boyer finds opportunity in this fragility to address fluid desire - bodies that are poised in both specific and metaphorical gestures. The parallax effect of each surface denies a fixed, strictly frontal interpretation. Unfolding like a mycelial bloom across a forest floor, the paintings connect the …