Jay Isaac ( born 1975) is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He shows his work internationally. He is known primarily for his painting, but has experimented as a performance artist. ,[1] He was also founder, editor, publisher and designer of Hunter and Cook magazine.[2]
Early life and education
Isaac was born in New Brunswick. He attended Cardiff School of Art and Design in Wales in 1996 and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC,in 1997.
Career
Isaac has participated in many group exhibitions, beginning with the Bologna Gallery of Modern Art in 2002. He has also mounted solo exhibitions, including shows in 2002 at Mercer Union, in 2005 at CUE art foundation, and in 2012 and 2014 at Monte Clark Gallery.
Isaac's early work was mainly representational. His 2005 show at the CUE Art Foundation explored issues of class and taste while depicting the lifestyle of the modern artist. Curator Xandra Eden, described his work as "cut with a bit of surreal comedy".[3]
In 2006, while painting the New Brunswick landscape, Isaac began to move away from painting objects and to experiment with a more abstract approach.[4]
Isaac cofounded the magazine Hunter & Cook in 2008, and it was published until 2011.[5]
In 2009 Isaac contributed a giant ice sculpture to the Massive Uprising exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.[6] His 2010 exhibit The Zone of No Ideas presented twelve previously unshown paintings, all displaying an abstract approach and enlarged scale.[4]
In 2012 Isaacs and Lorenz Peter created a number of musical tracks under the name Bay of Creatures.
In 2014's show The Sponges, the works are process-based and surreal, and relate to Yves Klein's use of sponges as a painting tool and his interest in "nothingness" and aesthetic "badness". Isaac made unusual use of sand and chalk within the paint.[7] Reviewer Brad Phillips (artist) pointed out the change from Isaac's more representational style in his earlier Vancouver exhibition, writing "Isaac has become very adept at making work that both entices and upsets the viewer."[8]
In 2013 Isaacs created an Instagram feed which he titled "@nationalgalleryofcanada", through which he posted images of Canadian artwork. After the real National Gallery of Canada pointed this out to the operators of Instagram in 2016, the feed was shut down.[5]
Selected exhibits
Group
Bologna Gallery of Modern Art in 2002
The Power Plant in 2004
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in 2006
White Columns
Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 2007
Art Gallery of Ontario, 2009
Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) in 2010
Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2014
Cooper Cole in Toronto in 2015
Solo
Mercer Union, 2002
CUE art foundation, 2005
Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 2010
Monte Clark Gallery, 2012 and 2014
Public Collections
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
Glenbow Museum, Calgary*
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB
Selected Publications
Off the Grid, Abstract Painting in New Brunswick, 2014, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fantasy Art Now, 2014, ed. Jay Isaac & Sebastian Frye, Swimmer's Group, ISBN 978-0-9938723-3-4
60 Painters, 2012
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, 2010, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Hunter and Cook, 2008-2011, periodical, issues #01-10, Jay Isaac and Tony Romano
Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting, 2008, Magenta Foundation
Jay Isaac, 2005, Cue Foundation, NY
Officina America, 2002, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy
Selling Out and Buying In, 2002, BizArt, Shanghai
Untitled from The Sponges, 2014
Installation view of The Sponges, 2014
Untitled from The Sponges, 2014,
Untitled from Second Eye, 2012,
References
"The New Old Abstraction: Contemporary Canadian painters look back to earlier examples - Canadian Art".
Cootauco, Maria (29 July 2011). "Q&A: Toronto artist Jay Isaac on the state of art in the city".
Jay Isaac, 2005, Cue Art Foundation, 2013.069
"Jay Isaac: Think Tanked", Adam Lauder Canadian Art, April 22, 2010
"National Gallery shuts down artist’s Instagram". Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, Dec. 4, 2016
"Not Long AGO, a Party". Torontoist, April 6, 2009 By Sarah Nicole Prickett
"Jay Isaac’s “The Sponges”". Monte Cristo magazine.
"Jolie Laide (Back)". ArtSlant, May 2014, Brad Phillips
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