
Jocelyn Hobbie
Lapis Blue, Cherry Red, Gold Pom-pom Mums, 2022
Oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Blooms on Fuchsia/Plaid Coat, 2022
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Polka Dot Swoon, 2022
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Wild Zinnias, 2022
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Grove, 2022
Oil on canvas
30 x 32 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Sun Facing, 2022
Oil on canvas
18 x 18 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Tulips/Jazz Flower, 2022
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Blonde in Verdure, 2022
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Thuya Garden, 2020
Oil on canvas
40h x 30w in
101.60h x 76.20w cm
Jocelyn Hobbie
Orchid, Calla, Campion, 2021
Oil on canvas
26 x 22 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Naples Yellow Dufy, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Kit (Ladders & Streams), 2021
Oil on Canvas
36 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Flame Stitch, 2021
Oil on Canvas
20 x 16 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Hansa Yellow, 2020
Oil on canvas.
16 x 16 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Sarah July, 2019
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Northeast Harbor, 2019
Oil on canvas
22 x 28 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Aurora in Red Sweater, 2019
oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Dogwood, 2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
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Jocelyn Hobbie
Irises, 2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
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Jocelyn Hobbie
Fair Isle, Geranium, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
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Jocelyn Hobbie
Ruby Lake (Geraniums), 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Chrysanthemums and Stars, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Confetti, 2016
Oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Fair Isle, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Magnolia, 2016
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Cobalt (Emerald), 2016
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Little Wing, 2016
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Rainbows, 2015
Oil on canvas
70 x 28 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Abundance, 2015
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Rose/Gold, 2015
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Bee, Yellow, Indigo, 2015
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Foxglove, 2014
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Untitled (Yellow), 2014
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Cobalt, Vermillion, 2015
Oil on canvas
12 x 18 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Kitten, 2015
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Stream, 2015
Oil on canvas
22 x 42 inches
Jocelyn Hobbie
Garden, 2015
Oil on canvas
18 x 18 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Untitled, 2014
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
New Bag, 2013
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Crimson, 2013
Oil on canvas
14 x 14 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Valentina in Rome, 2013
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Violet Shades, 2011
Oil on board
12 x 12 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Twin Iris, 2012
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Silver Mink, 2013
Oil on canvas
34 x 29 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Goldie, 2013
Oil on canvas
18 x 12 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Horizon, 2013
Oil on canvas
22 x 54 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Flurries, 2012
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Shadow, 2012
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Infant, 2012
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Party, 2012
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Cocktail Party, 2012
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Hope, 2012
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
August & Johnny Jump Ups, 2011
Oil on canvas
14 x 28 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Three Figures, 2011
Oil on canvas
16 x 28.5 inches
JOCELYN HOBBIE
Forsythia, 2011
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
“Hobbie’s technical prowess…her ability to combine scintillating, clashing designs—draping them together into backgrounds, pillows, and skirts—is enviable, and aids in shielding these elegantly aloof figures against our desire to better know them. The artist crystallizes the kind of dissatisfaction that tends to linger and then lift during mundane routines . . . like, perhaps, living. Her beautiful girls reveal a contemporary condition that is felt all too often, a twenty-first-century limbo that no amount of overstimulation could break.” --Kaitlyn A. Kramer, Artforum
For over 20 years, Jocelyn Hobbie has painted the figure. From her earlier dream-like narratives to her most recent paintings of flawlessly articulated women, Hobbie has fused themes of mortality, eroticism and a persistent disaffection with contemporary life. Echoing styles as divergent as the expressive figuration of New Objectivity and the layered patterning of Ukiyo-e, Hobbie hones a formal inventiveness in which neoclassical figures are depicted amid bold patterning and vivid floral settings. Her heightened naturalism and enhanced degree of saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these striking paintings in the age of post abstraction.
From Jocelyn Hobbie’s paintings of hyper-realistic models at Fredericks & Freiser in New York to Tony Matelli’s gravity defying sculptures at Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, these exhibitions are not to be missed.
by Paul Laster
By Rebecca Anthony, Published 14/11/2022