Jay Exon

Some pink paintings to start your week off with a bit of happiness. surrounded by Color, paint, and possibility. Untitled as of yet, 14” x 11” each and larger ones in the works.
Have a strong and creative Monday. It’s going to be a great day.

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.

Every studio has a heartbeat. Mine just happens to look like this.

Layers underfoot, color collisions, a few accidental masterpieces sacrificed to the floor gods. These mats have seen every hesitation, every bold move, every “what if I just try this…”

Proof that the work is happening. Proof that showing up leaves a mark. 🎨

Fresh on the wall: “It’s Ranch” 🌿
Acrylic on canvas, 60” x 60”.

A little green, a little grit, and a whole lot of atmosphere. Loving how this one settles into a space and quietly takes the lead.

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”

“Can’t Blink if It’s Pink”

A little electric, a little unruly, and impossible to ignore. This one leans all the way into bold color.

Acrylic on canvas
60” x 48”

“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.

Recent Installation ✨
“Sister’s Busy” — acrylic on canvas, 24”× 18”

“Patsy Cline was Never Seen nor Heard from Again”
Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 60”

She went walking after midnight… and, well, apparently just kept going. 🌙🎶

“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.