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STATEMENT OF WORK
My paintings often blur the lines between painting, sculpture, and installations.
I make relaxed, unstretched-shaped canvases. The stuffed "tube" like borders have a sense of volume and weight that hug the paintings. The paintings' surfaces might hold a subtle, un-pretentious bulge and other so-called "expressions," allowing the nature of the unstretched canvas to relax and breathe an overall sense of ease. Creating abstract tube-framed paintings enables me to contemplate and actualize the foundation of my paintings, being deliberate and intuitive in forming shaped framing that reflects in the overall abstraction.
Cate Mcquaid, (Boston Globe's Art Critique) Traveling between -doors, Substack 2024
"Jai Hart calls her paintings “relaxed.” What a perfect word – it seems so counterintuitive to the strife of producing something, and to the self-importance of Painting.
The soft, stuffed borders that bound her paintings give them a structure that pushes against the tried-and-true tropes of painting. Her unstretched canvas cradled by its gentle borders, cozy and basking on the wall, sometimes draping luxuriantly onto the floor. Aaaah.
If the form is pliant, the painting itself holds tensions. Colors buzz. Shapes jostle or overlap or break out."
Mallory A. Ruymann & Leah Triplett Harrington, co-curators of "Stuffed" at Boston University Art Galleries, 2023
" The interrogation of boundaries -what they are, literally and Figuratively -inspires Jai Hart's work. Through exuberant shapes and color, Hart's practice transcends painting, sculpture, and craft. Hart works against and with walls, contending with them as Structure and support as her materials streactch , bend and cascade. Round fabric tubes frame her compositions. Experiments with PVC pipe led Hart to merge textiles with the tublar as she sought a formal device to introduce play into her process. For the artworks in Stuffed, playfulness assumed epic proportion as flexible borders encourage painting to be expansive, with pattern and accumulated forms fracturing traditions of canvs on stretcher bars. Soft, stuffed materials enable Hart to eclipse the limitations of any medium-specific discipline, encouraging a broader consideration of the value of porosity within art production."