CODY HOYT brings his own contemporary sensibility to patterns that reference frescoes, tiled floors, mosaics, marquetry, and inlay design traditions. A longtime painter based in Brooklyn, Hoyt shifted his studio practice from Constructivist and Postmodernist-inspired painting to ceramics five years ago. He is now making large vessels which allow him to bring his complex compositions into three dimensions with invented handbuilding techniques that push the boundaries of traditional slab construction. Hoyt describes his practice as process-based, which involves rigorously drawing each piece over and over, hand-marbling clay, and constructing highly individualized formwork. His forms originate from slabs that recall origami, the machine age and cubist space.
Hoyt received his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at Patrick Parrish Gallery, Ace Hotel and PACS Gallery; and at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago. Group exhibitions in New York include Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, and DCKT Contemporary; Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore; THIS Gallery, LA; and Aviary Gallery, Boston. His work has been shown in Dwell, New York Magazine, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, American Craft, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make.
Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.
Mentorship and curiosity, when balanced in equal measure, reveal the precious alchemy of a curator. And it is the duty of the mature curator to discern and detect, to cultivate change, and from there to pioneer, and to share. Innovation is never static, and the Present is already the Future. Fresh dialogs evolve, energies to be nurtured, opportunities to be guided. Renewed and re-orientated, Patrick’s decision to exchange his bricks-and-mortar Tribeca gallery for a new interactive Brooklyn space aligns him towards a new inquisitive future as supportive benefactor, interlocutor and mentor to a fresh yield of talented creators — those established and those rising — and the quest for discovery rejuvenates.
— Simon Andrews
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