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Provincetown :: Friday, November 21st 2008
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Head paintings by Jo Hay.
Heads Up at Kobalt Gallery
Jo Hay's Paintings on Display Until July 29
By Kahrin Deines
July 15th, 2008
Portraits are an odd affair. Usually rendered as heads disembodied, their lifenesses staring out at us from within their frames of capture, they can seem like frozen emissaries.
| Jo Hay’s work will be on display at the Kobalt Gallery until July 29, with an opening on July 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. |
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They are missing the movement of their days.
Movement, however, pulses in the color and style of a new series of head paintings by Jo Hay that will open at the Kobalt Gallery on July 18.
While the faces in these paintings look out at us, or into unknown distances, they remain unfixed, their noses, foreheads or ears on the verge of disintegration. Their eyes constant, though, they are tangible enough to seem to merge and clash into their surrounding color fields.
Jo Hay is originally from Newcastle, England. After working as an art director for Rupert Murdoch Publications, she moved to New York City in 1990 and began to explore painting, studying at the Art Student’s League. She has exhibited in New York and in Provincetown, including at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
In her head paintings on display at the Kobalt Gallery, Hay has combined both representational and abstract elements to create a powerful effect of shifting expressions. The paintings release their subjects, giving them leave to simultaneously come undone and into being before your eyes.
Jo Hay’s work will be on display at the Kobalt Gallery until July 29, with an opening on July 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. The Kobalt Gallery is located at 432 Commercial Street in Provincetown. To find out more about the gallery, visit www.kobaltgallery.com or call 508.487.1133. To view more of Jo Hay’s work, visit www.johay.org.
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