Perry Lawson Fine Art and Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, as neighboring art organizations in Nyack, NY, have organized concurrent exhibitions of the work of contemporary artist Jill Hoy.

Perry Lawson Fine Art is pleased to present Jill Hoy: Narratives of Form & Color, a solo exhibition featuring figurative and landscape paintings by Jill Hoy. Through her dynamic use of composition and the vivid interplay of form and color, Hoy captures both the immediacy of her experience and the richness of her imagination. Each painting tells a story and reflects the particular significance of its chosen subject. Her figurative work is created in her studio and drawn from her imagination, while she paints the landscapes en plein air by direct observation, inspired by the effects of natural light, color, and pattern.

Hoy holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 1986, she has run the Jill Hoy Gallery in Stonington, Maine. She also exhibits with the Portland Art Gallery and has shown at the Gallery at South West Harbor, Schomburg Gallery in Santa Monica, O’Mell Gallery, London, and Chase Gallery in Boston, among others. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Harvard Business School, Boston Public Library, Fidelity, John Hancock, and the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program, among many others. Her work is featured in publications by Carl Little and Edgar Allen Beem on Maine art, and she has been profiled in Maine Home and Design, Yankee Magazine, and Down East alongside her late husband, painter Jon Imber. The 2014 documentary Jon Imber’s Left Hand, part of the Maine Masters series, offers an intimate look at their life and art. Hoy divides her time between Deer Isle, ME, and Somerville, MA.

On view next door, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center presents Jon Imber & Jill Hoy: Side by Side beginning October 11. That exhibition celebrates the profound creative bond between Hoy and her late husband, Jon Imber (1950-2014), whose 23-year marriage became an ongoing artistic dialogue. We will celebrate our respective shows with opening receptions at both venues on October 18th, 5-7 PM.