In a world that all too often insists on inevitability and separateness, Boyts Yoder’s paintings are playful refusals of these false assurances and fixedness.
Using a visual vocabulary of emblems and symbols she has generated over time, each work fluently articulates how joyfully form can evade our need for categorization. Can definition be captured and confounded at the same time? Instead of frustration, is it freedom?
What emerges from these questions are welcoming, mischievous and engaging spaces for imaginative play, a celebratory take on color and material, and an invitation to open up. In this context, Boyts Yoder sees painting as a hopeful, optimistic act, and the mode of abstraction as an exploratory and generative state of being.