Therapy Paintings
Exhibited as part of Thoughts on the Rocks, two-person exhibition at Monte Clark Gallery with Mark Delong
2016
Excerpt from exhibition text for Thoughts on the Rocks:
“Jay Isaac’s overtly acrylic paintings further his interest in personal abstraction. This new body of work was generated from a process of psychotherapy that depicts thought process as form. Isaac simultaneously embraces the sincere aspects of the personal while distancing himself with a self-conscious awareness of the implications and weight of using the personal as subject. The time-based paintings mimic and echo the psychological process of problem solving, while also playing with language and communication. Repeated geometric shapes become avatars for individual thoughts. Through abstractions of the letter “I”—mixed with intangible hints of brains, testicles, and other organic body forms— Isaac builds a plastic language and repeating narrative throughout the works; together, they hint at language and representation, but resolution and understanding are never completely tangible.”