New location · 311 W. 7th Street, #307
Via Boley
'I am inspired by how mirror-like surfaces can convey emotion rather than a superficial image. My work is a way to create spaces that feel surreal, familiar, and moving.’
 Acheacrylic mixed media on reflective material, 40" x 50" |  Locketacrylic mixed media on reflective material, 30" x 20" |  Along the Way we Forgot to Lookoil on canvas 40" x 30" |  I Just Need A Minuteacrylic mixed media on reflective material, 13" x 11" |
|---|---|---|---|
 Impermanent:acrylic mixed media on reflective material, 40" x 30" |  Witholdingacrylic mixed media on reflective material, 40" x 30" |  Pieces of Me Hidden Awayacrylic mixed media on reflective material, 24" x 20" |  Mementosacrylic mixed media on reflective window film, 30" x 20" |
 See Me (Reflection N3)acrylic mixed media on reflective material, 40" x 30" |  You've Been Playing with Your Poweracrylic mixed media on reflective material SOLD |
Via Boley
Austin-based painter Via Boley (b. 1999) explores reflection, perception, and the tension between seeing and being seen. Combining modern reflective materials, metal leaf, with traditional painting techniques, she manipulates surface and light to blur the boundaries between subject and observer, emotion and image.
​
Figures and objects in Boley’s work often appear fractured, displaced, or abstracted—caught between visibility and distortion. Her layered, sometimes torched, cut, distressed compositions invite viewers to confront their own presence within the work, transforming reflection into a psychological and emotional encounter. A beautiful moodiness transcends.
​
Boley holds a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2021) and has exhibited in Boston and Austin. She earned recognition including the Frick Arts Foundation Award (2025), the Gamblin Paint Award, the Roger Tibbetts Art Award, and the Artist & Craftsman Award. She completed a residency at Cow House Studios in Ireland (2023) and currently works from her studio at Splinter Group Studios in Austin, TX.
A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, 2021), Boley has exhibited in Boston and Austin, earning recognition including the Frick Arts Foundation Award (2025), the Gamblin Paint Award, and the Roger Tibbetts Art Award.
​
Artist Statement
"At its core, my practice explores the dynamic between viewer and subject, and the complicated relationship between reflection and identity. I’m interested in how surfaces—particularly reflective ones—can hold emotion, distortion, and memory all at once.
By combining abstraction and figuration, I create spaces where figures and objects seem caught between visibility and disappearance. I manipulate surfaces until they echo both vulnerability and resistance. In these works, viewers inevitably find traces of themselves—folded into the same shifting, emotional terrain that defines my own process of looking."