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FLAT FILES 2020 Jodi Hays 'Untitled (Blues)'
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Jodi Hays 'Untitled (Blues)'

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Drawer 2- Untitled (blues), canvas, ink and oil collage on cardboard, 8x6 2020

Artist Statement

My work is partly influenced by a rural vernacular of the American South. Systems (grid) become a scaffold for pictorial inclinations, associated with an architecture; awnings, bead board, weathered boards and lumber. Through this core iconography of the grid, stripes, repetition, slats, I am making a new world and asking the viewer to believe in it, like camouflage. Textiles and found fabrics, associated with warmth, the body, pattern, domesticity and weave inform the work. I think about how place, and land inform a sense of what is possible, who we are, who and what we become, and how we get there. I make work leaning into a gritty subconscious, using remnants like ghosts, considering an inclusive yet complicated path. The work functions like how a folded map relates to a pocket, holding potential to be a locative device, to consider consequences, and ask questions, including and beyond self-reflexivity.

Artist Bio

Jodi Hays is a painter whose work is partly influenced by a southern/rural vernacular. Residencies include The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at the Wiregrass Museum and The Brooks Museum (Memphis). In addition to her work as a painter, Jodi was a founding member of COOP curatorial collective. She is the recipient of grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize. Her works are included in collections of the J. Crew Group, National Parks of America, the Tennessee State Museum, among others. Her work is documented in six exhibition catalogues, and has been positively reviewed in Art Forum International, the Nashville Scene, Burnaway and Sharon Butler’s Two Coats of Paint.

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Drawer 2- Untitled (blues), canvas, ink and oil collage on cardboard, 8x6 2020

Artist Statement

My work is partly influenced by a rural vernacular of the American South. Systems (grid) become a scaffold for pictorial inclinations, associated with an architecture; awnings, bead board, weathered boards and lumber. Through this core iconography of the grid, stripes, repetition, slats, I am making a new world and asking the viewer to believe in it, like camouflage. Textiles and found fabrics, associated with warmth, the body, pattern, domesticity and weave inform the work. I think about how place, and land inform a sense of what is possible, who we are, who and what we become, and how we get there. I make work leaning into a gritty subconscious, using remnants like ghosts, considering an inclusive yet complicated path. The work functions like how a folded map relates to a pocket, holding potential to be a locative device, to consider consequences, and ask questions, including and beyond self-reflexivity.

Artist Bio

Jodi Hays is a painter whose work is partly influenced by a southern/rural vernacular. Residencies include The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at the Wiregrass Museum and The Brooks Museum (Memphis). In addition to her work as a painter, Jodi was a founding member of COOP curatorial collective. She is the recipient of grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize. Her works are included in collections of the J. Crew Group, National Parks of America, the Tennessee State Museum, among others. Her work is documented in six exhibition catalogues, and has been positively reviewed in Art Forum International, the Nashville Scene, Burnaway and Sharon Butler’s Two Coats of Paint.

Drawer 2- Untitled (blues), canvas, ink and oil collage on cardboard, 8x6 2020

Artist Statement

My work is partly influenced by a rural vernacular of the American South. Systems (grid) become a scaffold for pictorial inclinations, associated with an architecture; awnings, bead board, weathered boards and lumber. Through this core iconography of the grid, stripes, repetition, slats, I am making a new world and asking the viewer to believe in it, like camouflage. Textiles and found fabrics, associated with warmth, the body, pattern, domesticity and weave inform the work. I think about how place, and land inform a sense of what is possible, who we are, who and what we become, and how we get there. I make work leaning into a gritty subconscious, using remnants like ghosts, considering an inclusive yet complicated path. The work functions like how a folded map relates to a pocket, holding potential to be a locative device, to consider consequences, and ask questions, including and beyond self-reflexivity.

Artist Bio

Jodi Hays is a painter whose work is partly influenced by a southern/rural vernacular. Residencies include The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at the Wiregrass Museum and The Brooks Museum (Memphis). In addition to her work as a painter, Jodi was a founding member of COOP curatorial collective. She is the recipient of grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize. Her works are included in collections of the J. Crew Group, National Parks of America, the Tennessee State Museum, among others. Her work is documented in six exhibition catalogues, and has been positively reviewed in Art Forum International, the Nashville Scene, Burnaway and Sharon Butler’s Two Coats of Paint.

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