Eitan Boiarsky: Chasing Straight Lines

Eitan Boiarsky is an American artist working across painting, prints, and sculpture. His work revolves around a set of recurring motifs – tennis, skiing, backgammon, the history of abstract painting, and family ephemera – through which he explores memory, perception, and material. Boiarsky’s work investigates the threshold where abstraction emerges from the everyday.

Boiarsky’s painting process begins with iterative sketches in marker, which he then renders digitally before cutting, distorting, and then assembling the composition. He is particularly interested in reinterpreting familiar forms, distilling the objects and symbols that shape his daily life into vibrant, two-dimensional landscapes. He creates abstract visual environments through color and material, manipulating the slant of a ski slope or the lines of a tennis court.

Influenced by color field painting and minimalism, Boiarsky draws inspiration from artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, and Frank Stella. His recent explorations extend beyond painting into furniture and sculpture, incorporating materials such as wood, bronze, and plastic.