Currently on View @ Cafe Corvo 7/1-7/31
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Currently on View @ Cafe Corvo 7/1-7/31 〰️
FRIEND * FIEND* FOE
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FRIEND * FIEND* FOE *
Driven by an insatiable curiosity, A. Jay Hoyt uses automatic techniques and satire to create artificial compositions in oil on canvas filled with stylized disproportional figures, personal and religious iconography, flattened perspectives, and ambiguous spaces. Hoyt focuses on themes of social myth, moral imagination, identity, and grief. An archivist of human absurdity, her art serves as a visual record of the personal, intellectual, and cultural tensions of present day. You’re invited to participate in the shared human experience of making meaning.
“ ‘friend, fiend, foe’ expresses this truth: I am sustained by community, driven by an insatiable need to feed the spirit, and drawn by my own ego, all while constrained by the limits of my mortality.”
The Tetramorph: Friend. Fiend. Foe. 24"x36", Oil on canvas MMXXVIThe aphorism "Friend, Fiend, Foe" first appeared to me as images while I was developing my creative practice and visual language. In these images, the friend is a crow, the fiend is a wolf, and the foe is a two-headed snake, with one head venomous and one non-venomous. A skull often accompanies them. selected exhibitions
2026 Icons & Idols, a solo show, Bremerton First Friday, Cafe Corvo, Bremerton, WA, USA
2026 Alchemy, Wayzgoose Kitsap Art Festival, Bremerton, WA, USA
2025 Answer As Question, Columbia City Gallery in partnership with Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA.
2025. 2025 Arts Explosion, City of Federal Way Arts Commission, Federal Way, WA, USA