about Jai Hart
Jai was born and adopted from Seoul, Korea. She was raised in Boise, Idaho. Hart has lived in many parts of the US. Including Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Oregon, and Massachusetts.
Hart received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in MO, and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and received artist grants, fellowships, and stipends from art organizations, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Oregon Arts Commission, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Boston Globes’s Art Critic, Cate McQuaid wrote:
“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. “
Traveling Between Doors, Ocean in a drop, Substack, 4/9/24