Jackson Joyce 11:05 am, Sunday, 2024, oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (44.5 x 62.2 cm.)
Joyce seeks to paint a world where things look the way that they feel. His closely cropped,
snapshot compositions offer nuanced observations that draw attention to moments we may
miss in the busyness of each day. Joyce’s paintings, both intimate in scale and composition,
capture a chromatic atmosphere of quiet serenity, where hands rest comfortably on one’s lap,
a single lamp illuminates a car in an empty lot, a reader indulges in a book, and a dove
perches peacefully on a fire escape. One can almost here the soft, repetitive cooing or the
faint crinkle of pages turning drift off the canvases, these seemingly banal and fleeting
moments permanently rendered with oil and gouache.
Joyce (b. 1994) currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He graduated with a BFA from Rhode
Island School of Design in 2018. He has exhibited with Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles; Uprise
Art, New York; Playground, Detroit; KO Studio, Detroit; ISB Gallery, Providence, among
others.