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Friday, March 7th, 4:00pm-7:00pm
NJCU Galleries
NJCU Lemmerman Gallery is pleased to present Pat Lay: Hybrid, to showcase highlights of the prolific multimedia artist, Pat Lay, who is based in Jersey City. Over two decades Lay’s artwork has explored technological metaphors of human experience. Her sculptures, made of fired clay, computer parts and other readymade elements, are hybrid forms that have cross-cultural references and question what it means to be human.
PAT LAY'S ART SCULPTURE AND WALL In Lay’s collages, digital images scanned from computer circuit boards are transformed into a new matrix. Reminiscent of Buddhist mandalas, these abstractions are created in response to our world of technological advancement and digital progress. In her ongoing series, Soul Bots and Nested Bots, she embeds computer parts such as aluminum heat sinks and cooler fans in organic clay forms, suggesting possible hybrid creatures and plants of the near future. “How are we as humans changed by the new advances in technology?” Lay asks. By working both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, Lay seeks answers to the question through visual and tactile explorations.
Pat Lay (born in Milford, CT) has been a professional artist since 1968. She lived in SoHo, New York City for twelve years before settling in Jersey City, NJ in 1981. She received a BS degree from Pratt Institute and an MFA in ceramic sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology. Lay is a retired Professor of Art at Montclair State University.
Lay has received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She has been awarded several public art commissions including the installation of a large-scale site-specific sculpture in the sculpture park at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway.
She has had solo exhibitions at Elza Kayal Gallery, Tribeca, NYC; Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; the Jersey City Museum; New Jersey State Museum; and Douglass College, Rutgers University. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in Japan, Austria, Korea, China, Norway, Wales and Slovakia and at the Jersey City Museum, Newark Museum, New Jersey State Museum, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Everson Museum, and the 1975 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lay’s work is featured in a number of books including Lives and Works, Talks With Women Artists, Volume II by J. Arbeiter, B. Smith, S. Swenson; and The Craft and Art of Clay, Editions 1995,1 999, 2012, 2024, by Susan Peterson. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the following public collections: Montclair Art Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; Montclair State University, Jingdezhen Sanbao Art Institute, China; Rutgers University, Aidekman Center; IBM, Rochester Institute of Technology.
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