Nicole Boyce
Montreal
Nicole Boyce is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings emerge from a process-based practice rooted in iteration. Working across sculpture, photography, and collage, she explores how perception shifts when familiar materials are rearranged, layered, and disguised. Her work blurs the line between surface and structure, image and object—inviting visual tension through the interplay of precision and unpredictability. Shadows, textures, and illusions unfold into visual puzzles, asking the viewer to pause, question, and reorient. Boyce embraces controlled accidents and transformation, using disruption as a tool to reframe what we think we see. Her practice investigates the fragility of clarity and the ways meaning is constructed through reinterpretation.
Mural Title
“Passage”
Mural Statement
This mural explores architectural landscapes through shape, color, and layered forms across two adjoining walls in visual conversation. On the left, an archway and a flag in the sky suggest movement, passage, or transition. On the right, abstract figurative shapes appear to either ascend toward or descend from this threshold—introducing narrative ambiguity. Is this a moment of arrival or departure? Is the sun rising or setting? Time functions here as a metaphor—each viewer arriving at a different hour in the story.
The mural doesn’t fix meaning; it stretches between past and future, holding space for what was and what might be. The palette shifts between bold and neutral tones, creating a dynamic tension softened by the flow of forms. It invites pause, reflection, and projection. Rather than dictate, it encourages curiosity—asking the viewer to consider where they stand in this visual moment. Grounded in the architecture of the site, the mural becomes part of the built environment while offering something timeless and alive—a layered reflection on place, passage, and perception.