Mykel Boyd (°1970, Kankakee, IL) makes sound recordings, conceptual artworks, photos, installations and films. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Boyd creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.

His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of conceptual art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. With a subtle minimalistic approach, he formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.

His works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His works doesn’t reference recognizable forms. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Mykel has collaborated with many sound artists, most notable is his collaboration with seah as post doom romance.  He is the curator for the Somnimage label.

Mykel Boyd currently lives and works in Bourbonnais, IL.

SOLO

• October, 1952
• Fever Dream One ‎(CDr, EP, Ltd)
• Fever Dream Two ‎(CDr, EP, Ltd)
• Fever Dream Three ‎(CDr, EP, Ltd)
• New Landscapes ‎(Cass, Album, c34) 

SPLIT RELASES

• Rapoon / Mykel Boyd
Split 12”

• Mike Shiflet / Mykel Boyd
Split 12”

• irr. app. (ext.) + Mykel Boyd
irr. app. (ext.) + Mykel Boyd ‎(7″, Single)P

• Painting Petals On Planet Ghost + Mykel Boyd
‎(7″, Single, Ltd)

• Francisco López, Mykel Boyd
Split ‎(Lathe, 10″, Ltd)

• Drekka | Timber Rattle | Mykel Boyd
Jan 2020 Tour Complication ‎

• The Anti Group, Matar , Mykel Boyd
Phantom Airwaves Presents:
(Flexi, 7″, Shape, S/Sided, Single)

• 9 Beet Stretch 2.0
Aural Annex  / Et Symphonia Compacta

WITH OTHERS (Collaborations)

• Mykel Boyd / Winters In Osaka
Mykel Boyd / Winters In Osaka ‎

• Rapoon + Mykel Boyd
A Meeting In The Future

• ARMComm Sampler CD
(as member of TAG with Adi Newton)

• Mykel Boyd + Drekka
Globes and Ledges 12” Lathe

• post doom romance
Live at Memphis Concrete

• francisco lópez + mykel boyd
microscale deploy knob (zyf) 

• post doom romance
prairie transmissions

• post doom romance
glimmers on the archipelago