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Artist Statement:
My painting is based on the figure and it's relationship to inanimate objects in obscure locales. Mysterious, symbolic, and intimate, the dramas unfold in a place where time and space are compressed. I paint for the mind's eye. Logic and common sense only interfere. My work lives in a visionary world, where symbolism and dislocation breathe. Where gravitational laws are often abandoned and the images capture moments when the mind is disoriented.
The figures drift among fractured thoughts, architectural motifs and isolated everyday items. Subjects cross-reference each other. People often appear to be entirely encased in their own thoughts. They are sometimes repeated within the same painting, lost in thought. The paintings inspire thought on the minutiae of daily living. Rather than simple colorful pictures; instead my work are mindscapes; where imagination is the key for the visual/emotional experience. In my dream world, ideas blossom and time momentary stands still.
I work from live models, charcoal drawings and a very active imagination. As a painting progresses, I begin a narrative inspired by the various subjects at hand. Images, thoughts and environments accumulate. These are not premeditated works. There is an ongoing transformation of form, of subject ...
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Exhibitions for Wayne Hoey:
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2000 Selected Artists, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City.
1999 New Painting, The Art Students League Gallery, New York City. Curated by Frank O’Cain.
1998 Figurative Paintings, The Art Students League Gallery, New York City. Curated by Fred Mitchell.
1994 Trees and…, Tompkins Square Library Art Gallery, New York City.
1992 Paintings and Drawings, The Art Students League Gallery, New York City. Curated by Daniel Dickerson.
1989 Dimenseration, Ammo Gallery/New Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
1989 Thoughts and Memories, One Twenty Eight Gallery, New York City. Curated by Kurt Novak.
1989 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, New York.
1989 The Dark Side: WAYNE HOEY and MIKE LOVE, PS 122 Gallery, New York City. Curated by Tom Finkelpearl.
1988 Trans Ego, Minor Injury Gallery, New York City.
1988 Vital Signs, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, New York.
1985 Small Works, Washington Square East Gallery, New York University, New York City.
1983 Wayne Hoey, EKG Paintings, Grove Avenue Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
1982 Common Sense, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
1982 Wayne Hoey, Works on Paper, Stuart Circle Hospital, Richmond, Virginia.
1979 Winter Show, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York. Invitational.
1977 Art on Long Island, Islip Museum, East Islip, New York. Invitational.
1977 The Painting Show, SUNY at Farmingdale, New York. Invitational.
1976 Spring Annual, Islip Museum, East Islip, New York. Invitational.
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