Opening Private View: LAND OF BREAD AND HONEY - Oscar Marcus Boyle

Land of Bread and Honey is an exhibition of a sequence of drawings and paintings by Oscar Marcus Boyle focused on the subject of bread.

Bread is a substrate for jam, butter, anything you desire. It is ten-, fifteen-, thirty-thousand years old; as old as time, older than history, inextricably linked to global culture, economic- and power-structures, technological advancement, endlessly various in its forms, and, when available, it nourishes. Even gluten intolerance is itself a relationship with bread, and, indeed, there is now bread manufactured and marketed specifically to agree with your systems and readily available in supermarkets, usually on a special aisle or shelf.

The works in the exhibition reference a wide array of visual and cultural history both having to do and not having to do with bread, from Ancient Egyptian painting to Thin Lizzy to Google Maps.

Land of Bread and Honey will open with a private…