Jay Stern

with @andrewreedgallery at Dallas Art Fair last week. Down East House, 2026 oil on canvas, 45 x 40 inches

The gallery is pleased to announce our representation of the artist Jay Stern. Through his paintings, Stern explores the non-linear nature of memory. He adroitly maneuvers between locations, objects, light and shadow, windows looking in and looking out. Perspectives shift and coalesce to create quotidian relationships, but those that are steeped in experience. Through stacking and collaging, Stern finds a freedom in abstraction that is used to combine, contrast, and mold together pictures. Swathes of space are created through meticulous details that offer a compositional moment of play. The artist expounds upon forebears such as Richard Diebenkorn and Marsden Hartley, continuing the lineage of American landscape painting imbued with his life in coastal Maine. Jay Stern was born in Columbus, Ohio and resides in Rockport, Maine. He received his MFA from Seattle University and his work resides in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; James Castle House Collection, Boise, ID; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; and U.S. Bank Center at Cedar Hall, Seattle, WA. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Return is Welcome” at Andrew Reed Gallery (2025), “Slow Opening” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2024), and “Awning” at Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME (2024). Stern’s work is currently included in the Ogunquit Museum's “American Conversations”, timed to the 250th anniversary of the United States' founding, as well as our presentation at the Dallas Art Fair. The artist will present a special project in Paris later this year, and gallery will present a solo exhibition of his work in 2028. Photo courtesy of Jay Carroll

House on Union Street (April), 2025 Oil on canvas 55” in x 60” in I’ve wanted to paint this house for years. As you drive past it, there’s a distinct hexagonal character—it never feels flat. Its sides seem to fold into one another, and its angles interact in a geometric dance. Happy Solstice, last one of 2025! 🏠❤️

Night Shadow, oil on linen, 34 x 28 in, 2026 @andrewreedgallery @dallasartfair

Showing some new works this week at Dallas Art Fair with @andrewreedgallery booth F18. ⛰️ Spruce Mountain (Underworld) 2026 Oil on Canvas 50 x 60 Inches _____ The gallery is excited to announce our participation in the Dallas Art Fair, on view from April 16-19. We will be exhibiting works by six artists including Dan Attoe, Zach Bruder, Devin Düster, Xi Liu, Chico da Silva, and Jay Stern. We look forward to returning for our second year in Dallas. Visit us at booth F18.

Kitchen Scene, Oil on panel 24”in x 20”in 2026 with @elizabethleachgallery

Tomorrow’s Talent 5, a new book by @booooooom . Out now! 276 pages, printed in Canada. Thanks for including my work 🌹

I’m honored to be exhibiting with @elizabethleachgallery as part of their 45th Anniversary group exhibition, Sense of Place, opening this Thursday, March 5. It’s especially meaningful to have my work return to the Pacific Northwest—a region I called home for nearly a decade. Village Layers in September, 2026 Oil on canvas 50” x 60” sense of place March 5 - May 2, 2026 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to announce sense of place, a group exhibition featuring work by 17 artists, some new to the gallery and others who first exhibited their work here in the gallery’s early years. As one of the major group exhibitions curated as part of the gallery’s 45th Anniversary year programming, sense of place explores the many meanings of “place,” from specific locations to larger conceptual ideas of what makes a “place,” and the influence of people and place on one another. Ray Anthony Barrett, Ed Bereal, Christine Bourdette, Kavin Buck, Shannon Ebner, Derek Franklin, Richard Gruetter, Stephen Hayes, Malia Jensen, Lee Kelly, Justine Kurland, Henk Pander, Ryan Pierce, Christopher Rauschenberg, Meghann Riepenhoff, Jay Stern Amanda Wojick

A still house at the block’s far edge, with the big tree draped but vertically certain, as I hover in the idle space between left or right. A strange, blurry emulsion. Rawson Avenue, 2025, 48x48 in. oil on canvas

A painting of the sink in my cabin at @hewnoaks last year. Oil on panel, 20 x 24. 2024.

Acquisition Alert! With "Early Summer", Stern invites us into the artist's dining nook warmed by the verdent light of the early summer Maine sun cascading through the nearby window. A wet towel, pulled chair, and trio of partially eaten watermelon slices trace the presence of a person—Stern's partner—who has just left the scene. Stern's work poetically investigates the the mundane fragments that transcribe our movements through the world. "Early Summer" is suffuse with intimacy as each object has touched and been touched by the figure out of frame. Jay Stern, "Early Summer", 2024, Oil on canvas, 45 x 40 inches. Gift of Keith Fox and Tom Keyes. Image Courtesy of the artist. © Jay Stern.

Honored to appear in the new issue of @untappedjournal , captured with such care by the brilliant @jessedorris . Deep gratitude to @tiffany_jow for guiding this profile with grace and generosity. On shelves now or you can purchase the issue online! Also a big warm shout out to @kathebradford and @grant_wahlquist who provided Jesse with additional context for the piece. ❤️ Untapped is a design journal that looks back to look forward. Our stories identify important knowledge about improving the built environment, and contextualize it for today and tomorrow. Print Edition 003 2025–2026 84 pages, plus a special central booklet and foldout images. Featuring stories by Jonathan Nesci, Jesse Dorris, Jeremy Bilotti and David Rosenwasser, Edwin Heathcote, Michele Oka Doner, Diana Budds, Charlie Schuck, Kate Wagner, Sarah Archer, and Peter Miller.