Dan Devening on Jodi Hays

from April 2023, two person in Chicago at Devening Projects (with Katrin Schnable)

image Dan Devening

One might be tempted to see the recent work of Jodi Hays as endeavoring to aestheticize the abject remainders of our consumer culture. Although the work elevates what we discard to levels far beyond their humble origins, Hays’ collages and paintings advance so many other, more evocative avenues of inquiry. The history of Modernism hold…