Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, the third solo exhibition of Jay Stuckey at the gallery. In a monumental salon-style hang using the height of the gallery walls, the paintings span several bodies of work made throughout the past five years that highlight the artists’ preoccupations with creating an entirely new pictorial language.
Stuckey’s work operates on the premise of the real and imagined. Daily routines, lovers, anxieties, personal and public histories cast a nebulous galaxy of characters and situations in an illusory, dreamlike presence. Navigating this limitless material is the representation of the dark-haired “every man” traveling between mundane tasks, house fires, battles with himself, bandits, and scantily clad cheerleaders.
Equally humorous as dark and melancholic, Stuckey taps into an expressionist desire to communicate using text messages, semaphore codes, and his unique iconographic language where the lines between art and his life become evermore porous. Each canvas becomes diaristic, where the subject is often a stand-in for the artist himself. Notations, names, reminders and aspirations are scattered about his compositions, punctuating the atmosphere of the paintings and binding them to the real. Through working in this first-person tense, Stuckey’s archetypal images touch something universal — feelings that transcend both artist and viewer to reach the innately human.
Jay Stuckey (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. Stuckey received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago, and BFA from Brown University. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Abel Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin, Institut Franco-American, Rennes, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Blank Projects, Cape Town, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila. He is included in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and Collection Majudia, Montreal. He has lectured at Brown University, OTIS, and the Jung Institute. Upcoming exhibitions include a drawing show at Shotgun at The Cedars, Texas.
Jay Stuckey, Installation View, Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, Anat Ebgi, 2017Jay Stuckey, Installation View, Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, Anat Ebgi, 2017Jay Stuckey, Installation View, Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, Anat Ebgi, 2017Jay Stuckey, Installation View, Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, Anat Ebgi, 2017Jay Stuckey, Installation View, Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, Anat Ebgi, 2017 Jay Stuckey Puppet Show (Opening Act), 2016
Oil on canvas 35 x 50 inchesJay Stuckey
Puppet Show, 2017
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 inchesJay Stuckey
Here Comes the Girls, 2011
Oil on canvas
44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey HQ, 2011
Oil on canvas 75 x 55 inchesJay Stuckey Bouquet, 2016
Oil, graphite on canvas 60 x 44 inchesJay Stuckey Raft, 2014
Oil on canvas 60 x 44 inchesJay Stuckey
I AM SO SORRY, 2015
Oil, oil stick, graphite on canvas
38 x 70 inchesJay Stuckey Puppet Show (For George Herriman), 2017
Oil on canvas 78 x 96 inchesJay Stuckey
Movie, 2017
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 inchesJay Stuckey
Sleep Club, 2017
Oil on canvas
33 x 45 inchesJay Stuckey
Levitating, 2017
Oil on canvas
21 x 30 inchesJay Stuckey Three German Girls, 2016
Oil, graphite on canvas 60 x 44 inches Jay Stuckey
Puppet Show (Act 2) , 2017
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 inchesJay Stuckey
Donald , 2017
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 inchesJay Stuckey Hey Sexyy, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 17.5 x 25.5 inchesJay Stuckey
Hockney, 2017
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 inchesJay Stuckey
Snake Boy, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas
33 x 24 inchesJay Stuckey
Werner, 2017
Oil on canvas
30 x 21 inchesJay Stuckey Toothpaste, Pt. 2, 2017
Mixed media on canvas 45 x 33 inchesJay Stuckey Refill Prescription, 2017
Mixed media on canvas 45 x 33 inchesJay Stuckey The Sad Executioners, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 12 x 13 1/2 inches Jay Stuckey Jihad, 2016
Oil, oil stick, graphite on canvas 35 x 45 inches Jay Stuckey Girl Happy, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 33 x 24 inchesJay Stuckey Carl Jung's Birthday, 2016
OIl and graphite on canvas 60 x 40 inchesJay Stuckey Unforgettable, 2014
Oil, graphite, collage on canvas 62 x 65 inchesJay Stuckey Walking with Sharks, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 24 x 33 inches Jay Stuckey Help, 2016
Oil on canvas 44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey The Sad Executioner, 2015
Oil and graphite on canvas 33 x 24 inchesJay Stuckey Kunst, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey Sometimes They Jump in the Boat, 2016
Oil pastel on canvas 11 × 14 inchesJay Stuckey Ruined (I Feel So Sad), 2014
Oil pastel on canvas 13 1/2 × 12 inchesJay Stuckey Self-Portrait with Doll (Exposed!), 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey The Movies, 2016
Oil on canvas 60 x 44 inchesJay Stuckey Self-Portrait with Doll (Bedtime), 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey Pissing Contest, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 16 1/2 x 25 1⁄4 inchesJay Stuckey I’M SO SORRY, 2015
Oil, oil stick, graphite on canvas 38 x 70 inchesJay Stuckey Hey!, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 16 1/2 x 25 1⁄4 inchesJay Stuckey Set The House on Fire!, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 16 1/2 x 25 1⁄4 inchesJay Stuckey Shark Attack, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 16 1/2 x 25 1⁄4 inchesJay Stuckey Self-Portrait with Doll (The Wedding), 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 44 x 60 inchesJay Stuckey Towel, 2016
Oil and collage on canvas 13 5/8 x 12 inchesJay Stuckey In the Woods, 2010
Oil and collage on canvas 33 x 45 inchesJay Stuckey Happy, 2016
Oil and graphite on canvas 10 x 13 inchesJay Stuckey Down, 2012
Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inchesJay Stuckey Basement, 2016
Oil pastel on canvas 9 7/8 × 13 1/8 inches
EXHIBITION TEXT
Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Bye Jay Stuckey, by Jay Stuckey, the third solo exhibition of Jay Stuckey at the gallery. In a monumental salon-style hang using the height of the gallery walls, the paintings span several bodies of work made throughout the past five years that highlight the artists’ preoccupations with creating an entirely new pictorial language.
Stuckey’s work operates on the premise of the real and imagined. Daily routines, lovers, anxieties, personal and public histories cast a nebulous galaxy of characters and situations in an illusory, dreamlike presence. Navigating this limitless material is the representation of the dark-haired “every man” traveling between mundane tasks, house fires, battles with himself, bandits, and scantily clad cheerleaders.
Equally humorous as dark and melancholic, Stuckey taps into an expressionist desire to communicate using text messages, semaphore codes, and his unique iconographic language where the lines between art and his life become evermore porous. Each canvas becomes diaristic, where the subject is often a stand-in for the artist himself. Notations, names, reminders and aspirations are scattered about his compositions, punctuating the atmosphere of the paintings and binding them to the real. Through working in this first-person tense, Stuckey’s archetypal images touch something universal — feelings that transcend both artist and viewer to reach the innately human.
Jay Stuckey (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. Stuckey received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago, and BFA from Brown University. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Abel Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin, Institut Franco-American, Rennes, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Blank Projects, Cape Town, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila. He is included in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and Collection Majudia, Montreal. He has lectured at Brown University, OTIS, and the Jung Institute. Upcoming exhibitions include a drawing show at Shotgun at The Cedars, Texas.