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Jay Miriam<\/a>\u2019s first solo show in New York, \u201cCatch the Heavenly Bodies,\u201d opens tonight at Half Gallery<\/a>. \u201cI think there\u2019s something strange going on right now<\/a>,\u201d Miriam, who paints from memory, told <\/em>Adult Magazine last year: \u201cPeople aren\u2019t okay with being ordinary. I think that sentiment has existed for a long time, but it feels really amplified right now with social media and our online culture, where everyone\u2019s competing for attention, and even being normal is a trend. I don\u2019t see ordinariness as negative.\u00a0The characters in the paintings can be anyone. Even though I like painting women, they\u2019re not necessarily defined as women \u2026\u00a0Now everyone is so aware of their behavior and how it looks to others, and there\u2019s not the same freedom in our bodies.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jay Miriam, Fountain of Youth<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 64″ x 50″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sweeping the Broom Closet<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 50″ x 38″<\/p><\/div>

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Applying Coconut Oil<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 50″ x 38″.<\/p><\/div>

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Yellow Pigeon and Witch<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 68″ x 52″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay Miriam\u2019s first solo show in New York, \u201cCatch the Heavenly Bodies,\u201d opens tonight at Half Gallery. \u201cI think there\u2019s something strange going on right now,\u201d Miriam, who paints from memory, told Adult Magazine last year: \u201cPeople aren\u2019t okay with being ordinary. I think that sentiment has existed for a long time, but it feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[10918,958,20760,22924,22923,13808,4154,36],"class_list":["post-99576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-bodies","tag-brooklyn","tag-gallery-openings","tag-half-gallery","tag-jay-miriam","tag-painters","tag-paintings","tag-women"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cCatch the Heavenly Bodies\u201d: 4 Paintings by Jay Miriam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Brooklyn artist paints beguiling, surreal portraits of women from memory.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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