Jay Exon

Tangerine Tango 🍊

Acrylic on canvas, 60” x 43”

A bold color conversation where tangerine brings the heat and turquoise keeps things cool. Built through layers, scraping, and instinct.

New Work: “Succotash”

A little sweet, a little heat, and plenty of color chatter. Layers of violet, ember red, and gold doing their own happy dance down the canvas.

Acrylic on canvas • 30” × 15”

“Forest Fandango”

There’s something special about knowing a piece will become part of someone’s daily rhythm… catching the light, shifting moods, telling its quiet story.

Thank you to its wonderful new owner for giving it a place to belong. 💫

Acrylic on canvas
42” x 42”
SOLD

Just installed ✨

“Movin’ On Up” Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”

There’s something about looking up that shifts the whole story. A little lift, a little stretch, a reminder that growth rarely happens at eye level. This one brings that electric sky energy into the room and I’m loving how it plays with the space.

“The Empty Nesters” -
Now on show at Joseph Gierek Fine Art.

Walter Peepers and his wife Beverly had fallen from their luxurious Park Avenue penthouse into a cramped studio apartment in Queens, replete with a view of a brick wall. Their children had long since left the nest, flying off to lives grander than their parents’ current perch, leaving Walter and Beverly alone with their dwindling savings and growing resentment.

Beverly had taken to day-drinking as though it were a competitive sport—her weapon of choice, a bottom-shelf chardonnay she pretended came from France, paired with the occasional cigarette for emphasis. She blamed Walter, of course, for the stock market “misunderstanding,” as he called it. Misunderstanding or not, she still wore her nearly-hawked pearls in efforts to remind herself she hadn’t yet lost her “glam.”

She blew a cloud of smoke across their too-small living room and sighed, “Well, darling, at least we’re still together,” to which Walter, staring at the peeling wallpaper, muttered, “That may yet prove to be the biggest loss of all.”

PVC, chicken wire, expandable vent hoses, sticks, foam core, canvas, acrylic, spray paint, lawn ornament owls
84” x 42” x 30”

This piece was inspired by a small owl I created in 2013 (Mr. Peepers) which made an appearance at the “Silver Soiree” event at the Fred Jones Museum Norman, Oklahoma.