Marjorie J. Boyles is a painter and educator based in Chicago.
Her work explores perception, transformation, and the instability of familiar spaces. Figures and forms emerge through gesture, color, and layered mark-making, often shifting between recognition and abstraction. Drawing from observation remains central to her practice, even as images move toward more fluid and uncertain states.
Boyles has taught drawing, painting, and digital media for over seventeen years across high school and college contexts, including dual credit courses with the City Colleges of Chicago and graduate teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her teaching emphasizes observation, material engagement, and the development of individual voice through sustained practice.