consciousness

ART THAT TRANSCENDS

www.jilljoy.com jill@jilljoy.com 619.857.4251 710 13th Street, Suite 201, San Diego, CA 92101

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

consciousnessThis series of paintings by Jill Joy references the sky and sea as metaphors for universal consciousness, the backdrop against which the individual soul experiences and evolves. Using techniques she developed with oil paint and special mediums, she creates luminous, abstract paintings that live with the light, changing like the sky changes as the sun makes its daily passage from dawn to dusk.

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

Solace, oil on canvas, 48x60x2.5”, 2014

No Dark With Out The Light, oil on canvas, 48x60x2.5”, 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

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

Red Dawn, oil on canvas, 45x69x2.5”, 2013

Blue Sky, oil on canvas, 45x69x2.5”, 2014, Installation View

Blue Sky, oil on canvas, 45x69x2.5”, 2014

Alaska, oil on canvas, 24x48x2.5”, 2014

In The Distance, oil on canvas, 24x48x2.5”, 2014

Wave, oil on canvas, 57x69x2.5”, 2013, Installation View w/ Sculpture by Matt Devine

Wave, oil on canvas, 57x69x2.5”, 2013

A wave.

has crashed through my life

and 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 2013

Grey Skies, oil on canvas, 45x57x2.5”, 2014, Installation View

Grey Skies, oil on canvas, 45x57x2.5”, 2014

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

Aftermath, oil on canvas, 45x57x2.5”, 2014

Blue, oil on canvas, 60x48x2.5”, 2013 Growth, oil on canvas, 60x48x2.5”, 2013

Hope, oil on canvas, 36x36x1.5”, 2013

Islands, oil on canvas, 45x69x2.5”, 2014

Storm, oil on canvas, 45x69x2.5”, 2014

Smoldering, oil on canvas, 48x60x2.5”, 2013, Private Collection

“This painting is ridiculously

seductive. Viewing it as

the light changes, I often

have the sense of subtle

movement. Perhaps the

best description might

liken it to molten lava.”

Private Collector

Boston, MA

Sunset Over Aspen, oil on canvas, 48x72x2.5”, 2013, Private Collection

Thought Forms (compassion), oil on canvas, 20x60x2.5”, 2014

“Jill’s colors are vibrant and expressive. Her application is studied and purposeful yet easy and expressive. The concept

of emergence of the concrete from the nebulous field of unformed potential attracts me. 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, Blogger, Photographer, Art Commentator

jill joy resume

solo exhibitions

2013 EXPIATION - The Glashaus, San Diego, CA

2011 DUALITY - Pimento Fine Art, San Diego, CA

2009 THE MYSTERY - Bard Hall Guild, San Diego, CA 2008 THE ABANDONMENT BOX - Pappalecco’s, San Diego, CA

2007 LOVE - C Street Gallery, San Diego, CA

2006 LIFE’S NOT PERFECT - C Street Gallery 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

group exhibitions2014 Art Hamptons - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2013 Mac Fine Art - Fort Lauderdale, FL

2013 Art Hamptons - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2013 San Diego Contemporary Art Fair - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2007 HEALING ART - Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA

2006 NEW WORK - 7th Avenue Studios, San Diego, CA

2000 SIX WOMEN - Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

2000 FALL EXHIBITION - Frank Welles Gallery, Garnerville, NY

2000 MILLENIAL EXHIBITION - Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

1999 MONOCHROMISM - Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY

education, awards and residencies2010 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 Boston Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, MA

about the artist

Jill Joy lives and works in San Diego, California. Finding inspiration in spiritual development and a mystical perspective on life, Jill’s paintings are at once dynamic, peaceful and luminous. Her work references the sky, the sea and the landscape of her own consciousness and communicates the interrelatedness of all things.

Jill Joy with Devotion, oil on canvas, 48x60”, 2012, Private Collection

jilljoy.com jill@jilljoy.com 619.857.4251 ©2014 Jill Joy

ART THAT TRANSCENDS

08-2014Prepared by MagCloud for Jill Joy. Get more at jilljoy.magcloud.com.