photo by Matthew Williams
…“We typically work with similar artists across projects, looking for works that are impactful but easy to work with. We like to partner with as many local artists as possible. Artists featured throughout this project include couple Tyler Hays and Jen Wink Hays, Fitzhugh Karol, photographer Caleb Marcus Cain and prints from Paul Morrot,” reveals Waterfield.” READ ARTICLE
you can still make an appointment to see the show for another couple weeks by emailing james@BDDW.com
Showing with the awesome BDDW Annex Gallery Crew at Pulse.
I recently had the honor of being included in the inaugural Fitler@Offsite Artist Residency Program alongside some of my faves; Jane Irish, King Saladeen and Philadelphia Contemporary Museum’s spotlight artist Leroy Johnson. Such a fun kick-off night and opening reception for the exhibition in a beautiful space! https://fitlerclub.com/art/art-offsite/
… “Her loose intuitive approach has grown from following a circuitous artistic path. Hays fell in love with art while at Barnard College—”I didn’t hold a paintbrush until I was in college,” she says—and pursued the practice full-time after graduating, before pivoting into a successful graphic design career, and then again into school administration. (She is a founding partner of New York’s Blue School, a model of progressive education.) “One day I just felt ready to make art again,” explains Hays.
What surfaced was a clear, visual language rooted in abstraction. Color and shape, both natural and manufactured, dominate her work, and the juxtaposition between them is an endless source of fascination for her. “I like putting synthetic, trippy color moments and sharper man-made forms, like a neon orange traffic ccone, in the middle of stuff that feels more organic, and seeing how they inhabit the same space,” Hays elaborates. “That sort of interruption thrills me.” (by Fiorella Valdesolo)
As a native Mainer, can you only imagine how delighted I am that the UMaine Museum of Art in Bangor, ME has acquired "Satellite Field" for its permanent collection? It's a bit far into the future to plan a summer 2019 Maine trip, but the piece will be featured in the museum's summer 2019 exhibition "Summer of Painting: Selections from the Museum Collection." As good an excuse as any to get up to Vacationland in summertime.
"Raised in Maine and currently living in Philadelphia, Hays’ forms—dispersed in expanses that both surround and unite them—can be seen to reference both the open field she walked between her house and her grandparents’ in Maine as a child, and the urban landscape that surrounds individual buildings in Philadelphia. In Hays’ painting Dreams and Things, marigold-yellow polygons and orbs of spring green radiate from beneath a subtle field of gray-pink.
...Rendered in a palette reminiscent of the pale intensities of fellow Mainer Lois Dodd, the forms in the painting levitate in peaceful balance with the field that weights them from above, tilting the eye in and out of the painting’s spaces. Hays’ own dramas of space, color, and form hold the intensities of color and field in breathless suspension." READ FULL ARTICLE
The New York Times' recent feature on the beautiful, Long Island summer home of architect Elizabeth Roberts and her husband Michael McKnight featured "Asunder" a large gouache work on paper from 2017. READ FULL ARTICLE
Revisiting this pretty installation of my work on paper that Uprise Art curated for West Wing Writers HQ in Manhattan. READ MORE
"Mapping somewhere, in particular a feeling about a place, is central to the interpretation of her work, but the process is less about nostalgia and more about creating uninhibited." by Nico Kos Earle READ ARTICLE HERE
"Acadia" 2016, 30"x40" oil on canvas
Thank you The Jealous Curator for the kindest mention on your site: "I’m not sure how to explain how much I love these… hm… well, I made a strange gasping sound when I saw that first piece, so that might do it. Beautifully drawn graphite ropes living in perfect harmony with sherbet-hued gouache on really big pieces of paper. Yep, madly in love with these gorgeous compositions by Philadelphia based artist Jen Wink Hays. Sigh. Happy Monday.
"Chance Encounter" (2013, gouache on paper) looks lovely in the entry hall of Uprise founder, Tze Chun's Brooklyn home.
"Plume" 2015 makes a cheerful appearance in this West Village Lucy Harris interior in The Nest. READ FULL ARTICLE
a fun little piece in Domino featuring my old NYC apartment and studio. read article
Chatterbox, 2016, oil on canvas, 24.75"x36.75"
The closing reception for Almanac is this Friday from 6-8pm at RH Contemporary Gallery at 437 West 16th Street in New York City. Hope to see you there!
