Jodi Hays, "Cool, Dry"
2023
Dye and cardboard collage
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice employs abstraction, reduction, and craft. I build collage surfaces from bleached and dyed cardboard. My use of these materials accesses a relationship to resourceful labor which encompasses the rich visual vocabulary of sewing, piecing, and abstraction. I sink recycled corrugated cardboard under a dye bath to reveal rivulets of color, making visible the box’s formal structure. Informed by the rural built environment, the work evokes weathered boards, humidity, beadboard, and found patterns in textiles. The work also questions repetition and pattern, relating Modernist visual habits with the labors of washing, stacking, dying and mending–those connected with gender and family.
In my early career work, I was responding to formal and conventional structures of a painting: canvas, wood, and sizing. My practice has progressed from employing a collage “aesthetic” to what I am making now, straight up collaged paintings in which I sew, affix, glue, and dye cardboard and textiles. The new work pushes my practices into conversations on the expanded field of painting, found materials, and what I like to call “border practices” that encompass all of these.
I enjoy pairing art historical language with humble materials, the high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care. For example, in my work, Pieta, I have paired the art historically loaded title of Pieta with a collage made from roofing tile boxes. The high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care.
ARTIST BIO
Jodi Hays is a painter whose most recent solo show was at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and recent two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). She is the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Residencies include Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Oxbow School of Art, Stove Works, The Cooper Union School of Art, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been reviewed favorably in Art Forum, published inNew American Painting, and positively mentioned in Hyperallergic, New Art Examiner and Two Coats of Paint. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the J Crew Group, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Nashville Metro Courthouse,and the Birmingham Museum of Art.
2023
Dye and cardboard collage
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice employs abstraction, reduction, and craft. I build collage surfaces from bleached and dyed cardboard. My use of these materials accesses a relationship to resourceful labor which encompasses the rich visual vocabulary of sewing, piecing, and abstraction. I sink recycled corrugated cardboard under a dye bath to reveal rivulets of color, making visible the box’s formal structure. Informed by the rural built environment, the work evokes weathered boards, humidity, beadboard, and found patterns in textiles. The work also questions repetition and pattern, relating Modernist visual habits with the labors of washing, stacking, dying and mending–those connected with gender and family.
In my early career work, I was responding to formal and conventional structures of a painting: canvas, wood, and sizing. My practice has progressed from employing a collage “aesthetic” to what I am making now, straight up collaged paintings in which I sew, affix, glue, and dye cardboard and textiles. The new work pushes my practices into conversations on the expanded field of painting, found materials, and what I like to call “border practices” that encompass all of these.
I enjoy pairing art historical language with humble materials, the high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care. For example, in my work, Pieta, I have paired the art historically loaded title of Pieta with a collage made from roofing tile boxes. The high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care.
ARTIST BIO
Jodi Hays is a painter whose most recent solo show was at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and recent two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). She is the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Residencies include Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Oxbow School of Art, Stove Works, The Cooper Union School of Art, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been reviewed favorably in Art Forum, published inNew American Painting, and positively mentioned in Hyperallergic, New Art Examiner and Two Coats of Paint. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the J Crew Group, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Nashville Metro Courthouse,and the Birmingham Museum of Art.
2023
Dye and cardboard collage
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice employs abstraction, reduction, and craft. I build collage surfaces from bleached and dyed cardboard. My use of these materials accesses a relationship to resourceful labor which encompasses the rich visual vocabulary of sewing, piecing, and abstraction. I sink recycled corrugated cardboard under a dye bath to reveal rivulets of color, making visible the box’s formal structure. Informed by the rural built environment, the work evokes weathered boards, humidity, beadboard, and found patterns in textiles. The work also questions repetition and pattern, relating Modernist visual habits with the labors of washing, stacking, dying and mending–those connected with gender and family.
In my early career work, I was responding to formal and conventional structures of a painting: canvas, wood, and sizing. My practice has progressed from employing a collage “aesthetic” to what I am making now, straight up collaged paintings in which I sew, affix, glue, and dye cardboard and textiles. The new work pushes my practices into conversations on the expanded field of painting, found materials, and what I like to call “border practices” that encompass all of these.
I enjoy pairing art historical language with humble materials, the high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care. For example, in my work, Pieta, I have paired the art historically loaded title of Pieta with a collage made from roofing tile boxes. The high with the low, bringing together contemporary and ancient notions of shelter, protection and care.
ARTIST BIO
Jodi Hays is a painter whose most recent solo show was at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and recent two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). She is the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Residencies include Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Oxbow School of Art, Stove Works, The Cooper Union School of Art, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been reviewed favorably in Art Forum, published inNew American Painting, and positively mentioned in Hyperallergic, New Art Examiner and Two Coats of Paint. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the J Crew Group, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Nashville Metro Courthouse,and the Birmingham Museum of Art.