jill_joy_gallery_consciousness_exhibition_catalog_jan_feb_2016

consciousness

Recent Paintings by Jill Joy

JILL JOY GALLERYART EVOLVES CONSCIOUSNESS CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES ART

January - February 2016 Exhibition Catalog

www.jilljoy.com ©2015 Jill Joy

Photo Credit: Scott Carmella


taoists don’t trust words

Jill Joy’s paintings are her effort to bring into existence her interpretation of spirituality. She expresses

that these are representations of her own spiritual evolution. When looking at Jill’s paintings, I find I

connect with them. Being a philosophical Taoist, I understand the concept. Taoists don’t trust words.

They are incomplete and are only a representation of the thing. They are not the thing itself and so

cannot show us reality, they can only imperfectly, describe it. It is the difference between knowledge

and knowing. Jill’s paintings in this series also are not the thing itself but are a much more honest

and direct representation of her spiritual reality.

Her colors are vibrant. Her application, is studied and purposeful yet easy and expressive. Even her

work in black and white doesn’t seem dull or pedantic but alive and energetic. The concept of

emergence of the concrete from the nebulous field of unformed potential attracts.

The duality she speaks of in her artist’s statement, between conscious and unconscious awareness,

between the individual and universal mind, is quite evident in her technique. Placing abstract

concrete forms on top of the more amorphous and gentle field of color displays this idea well. Action

and passivity are both present in her painting style. The passive smooth universal field is yet active in

its bands of changing color even when they are different tones of the same hue. The concrete forms

she uses have areas that are just as passive even when they are surrounded by the more energetic

impastos. A kind of yin containing yang and yang containing yin.

Richard L. Hayes, Art Commentator, Blogger, Photographer


artist’s statement

My personal growth and spiritual evolution inspire my work as does my proximity to the ocean and

especially the horizon. Lately I’ve been finding more and more connection between the inner and

outer world as I dissolve the boundaries of my ego. I am at heart a mystic; this work is spiritual

experience made material.

The Consciousness Series is an expression of the unseen worlds of spiritual and emotional

energy and their interplay as the individual soul evolves towards a higher state of consciousness.

The paintings sometimes move from dark to light representing the movement from unconscious to

conscious awareness. They are a snapshot of mental and emotional experience time and space, the

mind aware of itself in a field of universal love. The paintings are executed in a meditative trance

and thus become meditative objects, contemporary mandalas.

This work references the sky and sea as metaphors for universal consciousness within which the

individual soul experiences and evolves. In all my work blank canvas plays a special role, a reminder

of the universal field of love against which each of us plays our human drama. Special techniques I

developed with oil paint and mediums create luminous surfaces that change with the light as the sky

changes with the trajectory of the sun and as the mind changes with the nature of thought.

I look up and I see the sky.

It becomes part of me.

My feelings like clouds

against the clear blue vastness,

scudding across the backdrop of

infinite consciousness.

I look out and I see the ocean.

It becomes part of me.

My memories like islands

in a sea of universal mind.

-Jill Joy


Gathering Storm, oil on canvas, 48x72x2.5”, 2014


Samskara, oil on canvas, 54x84x2.5”, 2015


wave

A wave.

has crashed through my life

Separated me

from what has tormented me

and sustained me

I sit here in the silence

in the receding tide

Wondering.

what will become of me

© Jill Joy 2015


Wave, oil on canvas,57x69”, 2015


pro-social byproducts

Jill Joy’s beautiful paintings are reflections of the

soul. Her inspired contribution adds to the

betterment of our homes and community.

Beauty manifested through art allows our

collective consciousnesses to advance by

positive influence.

These pro-social byproducts elicit Joy, Jill’s

namesake; and Love, the universal energy/

intention elucidated upon by all religious and

spiritual traditions.

Dr. Charles Freeman, Ph. D. Psychologist


Hope, oil on canvas, 36x36x1.5”, 2013


Loss of Hope (freedom), oil on canvas, 12x36x2.5”, 2015


Green Sea, oil on canvas, 45x57x2.5”, 2014


This work is striking;

the off-center void allows

my eye to rest on something;

my mind to contemplate.

It is like a window, and the

seemingly perfect white of

the void provides a sense of

the infinite.

Eric Domeier, AIA

Domeier Architects Inc.


Rain, oil on canvas, 48x60x2.5”, 2014


Study for Magenta Sky, oil on canvas, 6x18x1.5”, 2013


Red Sky, oil on canvas, 40x60x2.5”, 2013


Twilight, oil on canvas, 18x30x2.5”, 2015


Thought Forms (compassion), oil on canvas, 20x60x2.5”, 2015


jill joy cv

selected solo exhibitions2016 Consciousness - Jill Joy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Unseen Forces - Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

2014 Still Wet - Art Center Lofts, San Diego, CA

2013 Expiation - The Glashaus Gallery, San Diego, CA

2012 New Work - Consciousness Series - The Glashaus Gallery, San Diego, CA

2011 Duality - Pimento Fine Art, San Diego, CA

2009 The Mystery - Bard Hall, UU Artitst Guild, San Diego, CA

2008 The Abandonment Box - Pappalecco, San Diego, CA

2007 LOVE - C Street Gallery, San Diego, CA

2006 Life’s Not Perfect (but it’s beautiful) - Pilates Downtown, San Diego, CA

2002 Recent Work - Garnverville Arts Center, Garnerville, NY

2001 Soul Paintings - St. Peter’s Church, Haverstraw, NY

2000 The Advent Series - St. Peter’s Church, Haverstraw, NY

1999 Recent Work - Mountain Institute, New City, NY

1996 InnerScapes - 93South Gallery, Nyack, NY

selected group exhibitions2015 Rebirth: Death, Life & Transformation - Downey Arts Coalition & Symphony, Downey, CA

Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX

One on One - Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

Wall Street Fine Art, Ponte Verde, FL

2014 Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX

Mac Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Art Hamptons - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, East Hampton, NY

2013 Citibeat Best of San Diego - Space4Art, San Diego, CA

Mac Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL


selected group exhibitions (cont’d)

2013 Art Hamptons - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, East Hampton, NY

San Diego Contemporary Art Fair - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, San Diego, CA

2012 Group Show - The Glashaus, San Diego, CA

2007 Healing Art - Scripps Memorial Hospital, LaJolla, CA

2006 Guest Artist - 7th Avenue Studios, San Diego, CA

2000 Six Women - Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

2000 Fall Exhibition - Frank Welles Gallery, Garnerville, NY

2000 Millennial Exhibition - Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

1999 Monchromism, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

education, awards and residencies

2010 San Diego Fine Art Society Program Grant

1999-2000 Artist-in-Residence, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

1999 Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship, Johnson, VT

1988-1989 Art Student’s League, New York, NY

1986-1987 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1983-1987 Tufts University, Medford, MA Summa Cum Laude

JILL JOY GALLERYART EVOLVES CONSCIOUSNESS CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES ART

6124 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90048 747.234.6408 www.jilljoy.com [email protected]

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