Fay Jones

For the month of February, we are pleased to present “Stills” by Fay Jones. In this latest body of work, Jones examines the inherent oxymoron of movie stills, something she has always loved. The series includes a powerful tribute to Jean Renoir’s 1935 film Toni. Her recent painting, “Tribute to Jean Renoir” reinterprets a black-and-white still from the film, a process she describes as “slightly altering a ‘still’ from a ‘still’.” Jones states that her work is almost always figurative, but ‘stop-action’ figurative, the action reduced to one moment. All of the nine large-scale paintings in this exhibition are distilled from one smaller part of a larger story.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fay Jones received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Awards she has received include the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant, the Seattle Art Museum’s Poncho Artist of the Year award, grants from the NEA, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the La Napoli Art Foundation. Her work has been extensively collected and is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Oregon, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, as well as the cities of Seattle and Portland. Major exhibitions include a retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, a traveling retrospective with the Boise Art Museum, and exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum in California.

Artist Statement 2025

Stills

February 6 – March 1, 2025

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