Fredericks & Freiser is happy to announce an exhibition of recent art work and works on paper by way of Jocelyn Hobbie. Because the mid-90s, Hobbie has painted the feminine determine with a heightened naturalism and an enhanced stage of saturated colour that unearths an uneasy courting to realism and firmly roots those hanging art work within the age of put up abstraction.
For this exhibition, Hobbie will show off art work on canvas and paper finished over the previous few years. Echoing kinds as divergent because the expressive figuration of New Objectivity and the wealthy, layered patterning of Ukiyo-e, Hobbie hones a proper taste through which neoclassical figures with lambent or emotionally difficult to understand expressions are depicted amid boldly graphic clothes and brilliant floral settings. Hobbie’s seamless, polished surfaces and dynamic compositions meld her topics amid pictorial environments brimming with painterly precision. The canvases and works on paper have the basic and thematic traits of portraiture, but the artificiality of Hobbie’s crystalized ladies avert emotional specificity in choose of ambiguity. The ambience is mystical, sensual, and extremely female. Hobbie’s feminine topics exist proudly with a nonchalance that synthesizes issues of abundance and attractiveness with an elegiac detachment from fresh existence.