This artist uses luminous abstract paintings to represent universal consciousness and the individual soul's experience within it. She depicts feelings and memories as clouds and islands within the vast backdrop of the sky and sea. The paintings change with the light like the sky and are meant to provide a sense of contemplation. They reference spiritual development and seeing all things as interconnected.
2. 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
3. consciousness
This 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.
6. 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.
14. Wave, oil on canvas, 57x69x2.5, 2013, Installation View w/ Sculpture by Matt Devine
15. 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
16. Grey Skies, oil on canvas, 45x57x2.5, 2014, Installation View
24. 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
26. Thought Forms (compassion), oil on canvas, 20x60x2.5, 2014
Jills 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
27. 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 - Pappaleccos, San Diego, CA
2007 LOVE - C Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
2006 LIFES NOT PERFECT - C Street Gallery San Diego, CA
2002 RECENT WORK - Garnverville Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
2001 SOUL PAINTINGS - St. Peters Church, Haverstraw, NY
2000 THE ADVENT SERIES - St. Peters Church, Haverstraw, NY
1999 RECENT WORK - Mountain Institute, New City, NY
1996 INNERSCAPES - 93South Gallery, Nyack, NY
28. group exhibitions
2014 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 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 Students League, New York, NY
1986 -1987 Boston Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, MA
29. about the artist
Jill Joy lives and works in San Diego, California. Finding inspiration in spiritual development and
a mystical perspective on life, Jills 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.
30. Jill Joy with Devotion, oil on canvas, 48x60, 2012, Private Collection
jilljoy.com jill@jilljoy.com 619.857.4251 ?2014 Jill Joy
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