Roger Boyce
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist, Critic, Curator/Educator |
| Location | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Introduction | Expat American living and working in New Zealand. I have a long-established painting practice and occasionally write criticism for Art in America, Sculpture, Art New Zealand and ARTNET - among others. Where I come from the only people who read visual art criticism and review are the artist ,his dealer and the artist's mother. |
| Interests | Painting, writing, making music, fly-fishing, surfing. |
| Favorite movies | Kasper Hauser by Werner Herzog The Station Master's Wife by Fassbinder Andrei Rubelev by Andrei Tarkovski Vertigo by Hitchcock Goodfellas by Scorcese Imitation of Life by Douglas Sirk Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton Live Flesh and Law of Desire by Almodovar Land Without Bread by Luis Bunuel |
| Favorite music | Schubert, 50's Blues, R&B, Country & Jazz. Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, The Louvin Brothers, James Brown, Marvin Gaye. Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Paul deLay. |
| Favorite books | Knut Hamsun - Women at the Pump, Joseph Conrad - Victory, Nabakov - Laughter in the Dark, Philip Roth The Dying Animal & Ghost Writer, Boll - Billiards at Half Past Noon, Theadore Dreiser - An American Tragedy, Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death, Pirandello, Calvino, Primo Levi, all of the dead Russians, many dead German writers, Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Paul Bowles etc. |