Jodi Hays is a painter whose most recent solo show was at Night Gallery 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, among others. Residencies include Oxbow School of Art, The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in Art Forum, New American Painting, 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, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Reclaiming unexpected materials for the paintings comment on the resourceful habits of gendered labor and sometimes play and pleasure. My practice employs abstraction, minimalism, piecing/handiwork, and craft. Through sinking cardboard and its corrugation into dye, parallel lines are made visible. These uncovered patterns present new views on the Modernist grid and repetition. I use stencils, washes and dye applications on wood and cardboard to make visible visual connections I make between rural aesthetics and the Modernist Grid.

Exhibitions:

In The Middle With You

Six Degrees of Abstraction