Jocelyn Hobbie Painter USA 1968

Jocelyn Hobbie’s (b.1968 USA) paintings are both dream-like and hyperreal, sophisticated and playful. Her craft is found within these opposing truths, and within an articulation of women presented in a precarious balance; one between contentedness, and dissatisfaction. The energy which resonates from her work is sourced from a superabundance of vivid colors and patterning. This sensation is directly contrasted with the women’s expressions which are subtle and enigmatic. Within her work there is a conversation to be had; one about femininity, mortality, eroticism and a persistent disaffection with contemporary life.
Echoing styles as divergent as the expressive figuration of New Objectivity and the layered patterning of Ukiyo-e, Hobbie hones a disjointed harmony and formal inventiveness. Her heightened naturalism and saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these striking paintings in the age of post abstraction. Visuality is the primary value, an end in itself. While her work points to complexities and histories beyond the frame, the experience of what's actually on the canvas - it's aliveness in the moment and its insistence as a physical thing - is how we come to know it, and forms the terms by which it can be understood.
Hobbie was born and raised in Western Massachusetts and received her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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