FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2024 

Through Her Eyes: Phoebe Jamieson & Joanne Agabs

New York, NY – Phoebe Jamieson and Joanne Agabs are pleased to announce their duo exhibition Through Her Eyes. The exhibition will present paintings and ceramics from the artists’ current bodies of work. Through Her Eyes is on view May 10th and 11th, 2024, with an opening reception on May 9th from 6:00 – 9:00 PM, at Lvl 2, 55 Bond New York. 

Through Her Eyes highlights Jamieson’s and Agabs’ distinct approaches to forming narratives. Jamieson’s washy abstract paintings and whimsical handbuilt ceramics are subtly influenced by natural landscapes, the colors and shapes informing her expressionistic style. Agabs’ meticulously rendered watercolors organize the chaos of New York City’s streets into careful lines and shadows. Agabs’ illustrative approach to recording spaces is literal, contrasting Jamieson’s interpretive abstractions. Through the presentation of Jamieson’s and Agabs’ respective artistic perspectives, Through Her Eyes prompts the viewer to reconsider their relationship to the spaces they inhabit. 

Phoebe Jamieson, Fairyfloss Duet, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 32 inches

About Phoebe Jamieson

Phoebe Jamieson is a multidisciplinary Australian artist working in both painting and ceramic mediums, examining moments of connectedness through shape, form and materiality. Her abstract paintings underscore the unpredictability of paint on raw canvas and brushstrokes. In her ceramic sculptures, curves, and negative and positive spaces often allude to the rolling hills and farmlands of her home in rural Victoria, exploring relationships to nature, memory, and community. 

Throughout her work, Jamieson juxtaposes vibrant and muted hues to reflect the inherent emotions of color as well as the playfulness of both nature and the human spirit. At the core of her artistic practice, her work examines the active imagination in order to bridge the conscious and unconscious, creating empathetic pathways to understand our shared connections through paintings and sculptures that become vessels of storytelling and humanity.

Jamieson has exhibited in New York and London, and her work is in private collections in Australia, Europe, and the United States. She lives and works in New York, NY. 

Website: https://www.phoebejamieson.com/
Instagram: @phoebe_jamieson

About Joanne Agabs

Joanne Agabs is an artist and illustrator working in various visual arts media.  At the core of her practice is creating a personal narrative by visually recording her space in time. Agabs plays with her current chosen medium of watercolor to express a deep intimacy shared amongst the denizens of her city. The candid persons of her paintings and drawings, captured in relief, attest to a New York in its dynamism and constant shifting as Agabs strives to capture fleeting moments, usually quotidian but always somehow both compelling and imperative in nature. The precision and detail with which her pieces are carefully constructed give Agab’s work a delicate atmosphere from tree-lined avenues to colorful street vendors and beyond in her love letter to New York.

Website: https://www.joanneagabs.com/
Instagram: @jagabs37