Hilary Devaney
Bio: Hilary Devaney (b. 1992, New Jersey) paints what lingers in the doorway between physical and psychological experience. Her work positions humor with fear in order to show the fullness of living and remind viewers of the many ways we slip out of ordered time.
Instagram: @boiling_time_pudding
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Painting is a way of thinking. It's not predicated on words but exists as its own path to truth. It's throwing the stick off the bridge and watching the river's current carry it off. It's drawing a gravestone so many times that it becomes clear that it was never a literal gravestone, just a gesture imprinted in my hand. Like sand through an hourglass, where the bottom half of the glass keeps regurgitating the sand back to the top, my work recycles and collages pieces of time to render a fuller picture of what it feels like to be here. My process is intuitive; I invite mysteries.
L to R: ”Indeed, the Hour of Darkness is Really the Hour of Water” (66.25” x 51.25”, Oil on canvas, 2022); “I Remember How the Darkness Doubled” (54” x 67”, Oil on canvas, 2022); “It Seemed to Them that They Were Driving Away from the One Real Place and Hour of Their Lives” (54” x 72”, Oil on canvas, 2022); Puddle 1 (11" x 104", Oil and resin on canvas, artist blocks, plastic horses, 2022)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: Abundance of Caution (60” x 54”, Oil and metal leaf on canvas, 2021); I Shall Yet See Many Things (48” x 60”, Oil on canvas, 2021)
