Louise Janet, Dans ma Rue (In My Street), 2024, oil on canvas, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19 x 14 cm.)
Scroll is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Louise Janet and Jackson Joyce. Janet and Joyce bring their own distinctive, painterly hand to capturing the quiet moments of the everyday.
Drawing has been present in Janet’s life since childhood – she drew every day, and as a teenager, capturing everything in notebooks. Growing to an obsession, Janet saw drawing as a way to record every event she experienced, which has remained present in her work to this day. Through painting, Janet captures the people around her, the places they live, and the objects around them. For Janet, the body of a person she paints is equally as important as the space it inhabits. A person’s surroundings – the books on their shelves, the clutter on their desk, the lights left on, the background of one’s iPhone – give clues into personal narratives and the stories one holds.
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.
Janet (b. 1999) currently lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2023. She has exhibited with Taymour Grahne Projects, London; Galerie T&L, Paris; Galerie Mathilde Le Coz, Paris; Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, among others. This is her first exhibition in New York.
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.