Moving from Southern California, living in a nice white cube, and coming up north with great expanses of land and sea was overwhelming at first. I chose the long thin format because it was all that I could take in at once, a small piece. The natural world is powerful and beautiful.
This piece was created just after we had sung the rain song, and danced for weeks to bring on the much needed precipitation. We'd had some rather dry years and the cloud formations were indicative of some good output. I couldn't wait to put brush in hand and capture these clouds!
In a similar vein, as in Aglow, this sky was beautiful and much awaited as it foreshadowed RAIN!
As an air sign, Aquarius, I guess that clouds and the skies that hold them transfix me. Guilty.
Riding on a train, coming back from Tijuana where I get my braces adjusted, I could not sleep. Luckily for me the sky was just opening up, with the barest hint of light coming through smokey black and grey clouds. My heart stood still. My hands and brain took stock and immediately painted.
Sometimes, just the barest edge of a ridge can make your heart melt as did this one mine. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to commune with this land daily.
A fan of Mark Rothko's work, and just seeing this collection of color appear in the sky, I immediately felt connected to him too. It is the scene I chanced by coming home one evening at just the right moment.
A celebration of that awaited precipitation. Just merely a few hours before, on this same canvas, arches paper, I was painting a beautiful robin's egg blue and cerulean blue sky. All of that is under these ascending clouds.
I am so happy that I painted this ridge over and over again before the tragic fires of 2017! This was the view I felt privileged to gaze upon early each evening.
From the ashes was a project I created in an attempt to journal and document our experience as a community, responding to the Redwood Complex Fire 2017. So many wonderful individuals worked together to heal, comfort and help us to process this tragic event. In the wake of it, there was the realization that we had to do things a little in some cases, a lot differently than pre fire in order to face the future in an empowered way.
From rushing to put out fires and saving homes, shooting images of the fire as it happened, opening the doors at the local Redwood Valley Grange to provide a warm safe space for people to gather and have a hot meal, turning the Ukiah Players Theatre to a free store full of necessities, fundraisers generated to assist folks who needed, to creative workshops produced for and some by fire survivors, carefully directed fire ensemble monologues, memorial rocks and murals, the community rallied together in a myriad of inspiring ways and contributed moving content, images, music, stories and heart.
This project was funded by the generous donations of the South Ukiah Rotary Club, The Community Foundation of Mendocino County, The Ukiah Saturday Afternoon Club, The Frank R. Howard Foundation, Jan Hoyman Studio, Judith DaSilva and Joe Sandson. The Arts Council of Mendocino County served us as our fiscal sponsors. I am grateful to be part of a loving and caring community. The aim of From the ashes is demonstrate the resilience of the human spirit when aided by love, kindness and generosity.
Part Two “the Future is NOW!” is in the works. Funding once again is needed. Part Two explores alternate ways of building, making use of fire timber, prescribed burns, making home fire safe, animal grazing, ways to heal the soil thereby making it more able to hold more water and sequester carbon, the importance of bringing back more native grasses and planting. Interviews discussing all the above and more with local fire professionals, ranchers, soil scientists, Native Americans who will discuss the ancient ways indigenous people stewarded the land, fighting fire with fire. And more how to’s for living in a changing climate in wildfire territory.
If you would like to support and contribute financially to the project you can do so in two ways: you can directly send money via PayPal to: PayPal.me/jmoscariello - Please note “Jaye’s film or “Part Two- The Future is NOW” or you can mail a check or money order made out to: Arts Council of Mendocino County, with a notation “for Jaye’s film Part Two” to:
Arts Council of Mendocino County, 309 E Perkins St, Ukiah, CA 95482,
(707) 463-2727. acmc@artsmendocino.org
Thank you for visiting!
A nourishing and compelling blend of music from classical to jazz with melodically weaving dreams and piercing lyrics for Earth justice.
Nature’s Dream, musical compositions of Bill Taylor, Priscilla Alden Rowe (Bill’s mother’s maiden name) and Paul McCandless’s “Spanish Stairs” with Paul McCandless playing. I created the cd cover. Have a listen:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/billtaylor4
If you would like a copy of this wonderful collection of music, just hit the link below. It is $15. plus $5. shipping ($20. total Thanks for contributing to music happening in the world! Just note: Nature’s Dream, Thanks!
Politic-OH! paintings are my responses to the inauguration of 2017. Also shown are works on paper from my “Narrative Series”, “Land and Sea” and “The Narratives” at the Corner Gallery Ukiah, show comes down a little early on the 22nd of December. This is my first show in Ukiah. There are a lot of works for sale and all proceeds go towards my two “From the Ashes” projects, documenting the events in our area, commemorating the Redwood Complex Fires 2017
“Out of the Ashes” was an exhibition to commemorate the anniversary of the Redwood Complex Fires of 2017. It was comprised of 170 creative responses; art, photography, writing, and performances created by those affected by the fires. There works were shown in October 2018 at four venues: the Ukiah Library, Mendocino County Museum in Willits, The Art Center of Ukiah, and the Redwood Valley Grange.
“From the Ashes”, a documentary of the shows and a catalogue are in progress. For more information or to donate to the project, kindly hit the email link below, which will take you to the PayPal account and note “Out of the Ashes” or write me at my email: jamoscariello8@gmail.com
“Burning Ridge” was my view during the fires on our land in 2017.
Si perdemos nuestros océanos, nos perdemos a nostros mismos.
"If we lose our oceans, we lose ourselves."
Para mas información a cerca los ballenas:
http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2017/12/15/2017-cetacean-red-list-update/
I have been living nearby the sea for most of my life, the current status of our water living relatives has propelled me to do this project to raise awareness of the crisis.
This mural resides on the South wall of the Piscina Municipal in San Ramon, Costa Rica. It is about the cetacean family which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises, and specifically shows but six that are in critical endangerment or in the sad case of the Yangztee River dolphin, the Baiji, which is considered functionally extinct.
From left to right is the humpback dolphin, below left: baby Blue Whale, the adult Ballena Azul, the Ballena Gris, the Baiji, above right: the Vaquita, and below right, the Northern Right Whale.
More information and final images will be up soon, stay tuned. Thanks!
I thank the Odysseus Costa Rica artist residency for the time and space to commence this project.
Following the fires of last year, my husband Bill and I wanted to share something with the community and help those who’d experienced great loss.
Thanks to the North Street Collective and the artist residency they granted me in the sweet town of Willits, I was able to reflect on the past months complete my series “Politic-OH!”and embark upon new work.
All works are on paper and mounted on hardboard and are under clear acrylic glass.
Artist Statement from the show “Politic-OH!” October 2017
Enter the 2016 Political Campaigning for the Presidency. During much of this time, I self published my first storybook, Capture the Moon and endeavored to obtain a publisher for this and future works. The book’s message is simple: tune in, the answers lie within.
So now we come to January 2017 - I’m meditating daily and one day, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, I awaken with a primal scream! AAaaaaaarrrrrGGGGHHH!!! I jumped out of bed and began drawing and writing. “Do NOT Disturb” I requested of my husband. What ensued was this current series that unleashes Chase once again, and without censorship. I present to you Politic-OH!
This body is comprised of five groups: Part One: Visceral: (Fallout, Overtake, Divided, Unsafe, Angst and Powerball) in response to the inauguration and the lack of response to the Syrian refugees by the same occupant of the White House Part Two: Casino Trump (King of the New World, Casino Trump, Casino 2, Trumpopolis, and Trump Utopian World), Part Three: Art of the Steal: (Art of the Steal, Boogey Man, Zendon’t Work Trump, and Take Me Away), Part Four: Uprising: (Why?, Pitchforks, Stand-Up!, Missiles, To Have And, To Hold, and Preserve) Part Five: I Had A Dream: (I Had A Dream Last Night, I Had Another Dream, and Tribute to David Bowie).
Many thanks go to Natasha Hoehn, Noel Woodhouse, Josiah, Anne Beck & North Street Collective…Big Thanks to Ree Slocum, Holly Madrigal, Ursula Partch, Lyndsey Burns and the Board of the Willits Center for the Arts in allowing me to show these works. Thank you for checking them out. J.A.M. September 2017
My new paintings depict the eclipsing of landscapes (personal, emotional and physical) by environmental, political and socio-economic events.
Ghostly monkey figures create an eerie and sometimes violent shadowing over commonly beloved urban and rural scenes.
How can we see our favorite spaces the same with the acceleration of insane and destructive policies?
Inspired by the Election of 2016, this series is divided into Part I - Visceral, Part II - Casino Trump, Part III - Art of the Steal, Part IV - Uprising, and Part V - I Had A Dream.
This is the first piece in the series. There are 25 pieces in total, all “compelled/inspired” by the 2016 Presidential Election/2017 Inauguration.
I had awakened from meditating nonstop, hoping against hope that something good would intervene and stop this madness. A primal scream flew out of me, “What the f—-!” The day after the inauguration, and I started painting, drawing, and marking furiously and didn’t stop save for the three fires that hit us in 2017.
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
The color won’t come off! You can’t disappear into me! Aching for every child who has felt the sting of prejudice, and every human being who has felt the sting of bullets because he/she was of color.
Hate crimes, violence. The horror.
January 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
No words for the unspeakably sad feelings about this one. Too big to not win, to big to care. Profit over people.
September 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Shipping included.
Let me count the bodies. Imbedded under the paint are a number of pencil strokes, lines and markings for every time I thought about the refugees and the numbers that were dying from the conflicts, not just in Syria, but this is what I was thinking about.
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Every time I think of you, you are already dead. Thinking about the Syrian refugee crisis. 1/31/17.
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Each day I think of you in too many numbers, the numbers are greater than I can comprehend. I stop breathing every few moments because you have forever stopped.
The world is not safer and we refuse aid to countries in which we have no profitable interest, we are the keepers the watchers of the flames of capitalism.
You/we are all casualties of a dysfunctional system that is collapsing. Bombs are being thrown, dropped probably USA made or sold.
My hands are bloodstained and so are yours.
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
About the Syrian refugee crisis. January 2017
My first thoughts after the Big Bang of the inauguration were, this is his biggest best casino ever! And maybe he personally will overcome any of his bankruptcy issues, given that he is currying so much favor for his hotel and other businesses, to he— with the rest of the nation, he is getting all he wants and more! Yippee!
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Inside the new world of Trump. Things of beauty and nature are forfeited for the game. Inside this mind is a confused person, methinks.
January 2017
Completed September 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
This image needs no written explanation. But if you want one, here it is, our globe/world is being manipulated by hands of greed, we the people just keep eyes on it, watching passively or actively, while almost helplessly the powerful lines will continue to pull the strings of the Puppet King who is currently ruling the world.
Will this every stop? Will there be a Hollywood ending as in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? Good question.
February 2017
Completed in September 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Meditation, right action, phone calls and letters, nothing seems to make a difference.
February 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Even though you are very rich and have powerful allies, I will not let you frighten me.
Too many people have died and you have turned your back on them.
I am keeping track of you who have died. I know you and you have not died for naught
I know you and you have died because I slept
I know you and you have died without my knowing why
I know you and I am sorry that you have died or are going to die.
The lines are embedded into this painting because while I was painting it I thought of each one of you who have died, I cannot possibly draw a line for each one of you, maybe each line represents one hundred of you, I do not know, I do not know the figures or the answers, but I will witness your life, your death. January 2017
11" x 14" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper . Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
People do not realize that they vote everyday with their food dollars and other dollars. - When they buy food that comes from miles away or is subsidized by government to large agricultural companies, they are actually giving the power away.
Then someone gets elected and surprise surprise - who does he choose for his cabinet? Big business and people often say to themselves “I’m too small to fight this one, I’m scared, my purchases don’t make a difference” no matter what, they often don’t see that we do hold the power and the elected official more than likely is full of hot air! February/March 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
It seems as if every law and ordinance (protecting the people and our natural resources and national parks, wildlife…) is being pushed back and has been for several decades.
Almost as if we have made imaginary strides towards progress, cleaning up the environment and rolling back the effects of climate change. It appears that things are shifting in anti-friendly to the planet ways and there are people who have acquired so much money = power for the sole purpose of ensuring that right action does not take place.
WE, the people, must stand up to this imbalance of power, this heavily weighted scale that favors tremendous wealth. The sums that these individuals possess, are staggering. I fantasize about having that money so that I could fight the extremism that has taken our country hostage.
March 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Pineapples flying to
Fight the Puppet
King of the land
Lands through him
He flings pineapples at
The people from his
Orange castle and
The people fight
Back and take
Back the land
March 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Fearing for the future of the planet, the desire to take care of it and protect it, gets stronger.
March 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Wanting all that you see, going for every bit of it, that is what greed will have you do, and once you have it you want.
February/March 2017
Completed September 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
On to it. That is what these two pieces (To Have and, To Hold) are about, grabbing and hoarding and wanting to keep everything you can.
Completed September 2017
11" x 17" Mixed Media (Gouache, Ink, Graphite, Casein) on Bristol Paper. Mounted on hardboard and under plexiglass.
Chase the Monkey is a series of work about moving from being and feeling trapped by limited perceptions to getting back out there in the world and taking advantage of all of life's adventures.
All images are made with archival materials; gouache and ink on acid free paper and then matted and framed professionally.
This is my first book, it is a Monkey's tale about getting lost and then finding yourSelf.
I created "Capture the Moon" to also help point children (of all ages) in the direction of mindful practice, Mindful practices assist in navigating through challenging waters and helps to self regulate emotions.
A Little Background About Chase the Monkey series!
May of 2008, following a painful break up with a partner and friend, and a series of work entitled “The Pool Series” (which responded to both the tragic wildfires in Southern California and my own losses) I found myself in a creative drought.
I no longer knew what I wanted. The numbers of global catastrophes and political escapades were overwhelming. Physically I was at a low ebb too tired to respond to any of it. Having designed workshops that helped dismantle creative blocks, I put myself into my own program.
Each morning before the sun would rise, I would awaken and draw and write and then go to work. The rules were simple: no judging, no self censorship, PERIOD. I trusted the process.
What came forth was a series of drawings that later became paintings in a series entitled “Chase the Monkey”. A play on words to mean that elusive chase in pursuit of success and also the chasing of what the Buddhists call, the monkey mind. The paintings revealed deep longings and desires.
Writer Matthew Zuckert described the series:
Jaye Alison Moscariello’s body of work, “Chase, the Monkey” invokes the primal idea of love and fun within the spirit. She employs expressive color and sinuous line to evoke the powerful connections between/among human beings and nature. Her palette suggests the tropics without being garish, and her self-assured contour drawing reminds some viewers of Matisse, communicating a lot with just a little. Her figures chase the élan of human interaction in their colorful environs. The figures become the masters of their domain, man stripped down to his animal. They are everyone and anyone, existing in a locale where identity lies not as deeply as the desire for freedom and joy…”
I was a tired monkey that began listening to her inner monkey. My studio of my dreams in Santa Monica became increasingly unsustainable as the rent was being continually raised. I began looking outside of the city for a place to call home. Recalling one of the reasons for being there, Santa Monica, was that it reminded me of Bolinas, California, a place I had visited in 1978, I investigated Northern California.
My search led me to Bill Taylor, “a playful, musical, serious farmer” in Anderson Valley. We fell in love and were married two and a half years later.
The Chase series continued to inform. I returned to school and earned my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Practice from Transart Institute/Plymouth University. My physical health improved tremendously as I enjoyed a much more nature based and sustainable life.
9" x 12" Gouache/M/M on Bristol Paper
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
Framed 14" x 16" Archival
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
It is professionally framed with archival materials in a light wood frame.
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
Image: 9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink, Watercolor on Bristol Paper
Framed: 14" x 16" Archival
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
9" x 12" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Bristol Paper
23" H x 30" W Gouache, acryclic, pen and ink
Framed 29" x 34"
If you like what you see, visit my store and get yourself one, or two or three or more! Every book purchased helps support kindness being spread.
These images were my response to nearly 20,000 wildfires that we had in Southern California from 2006-2008. It was tragic and for some a real wake up call that we needed to work with Mother Nature's systems rather than imposing our own upon her. This paralleled my own personal loss of a long term relationship. Pain. Global warming. Grief. Indifference. Fear. Unconsciousness. Loss.
The very first piece in the series.
Exhibited in Studio City.
36" x 48" Oil on Canvas
8" x 8" Oil on Cradled Wood
12" x 36" L Oil on Cradled Wood
6" x 6" Oil on Cradled Wood
8" x 8" Oil on Canvas, Framed
60" x 72" L Oil on Canvas
Photo Credit: Ree Slocum
Photo shows scale of paintings.
Every image expresses a thousand words, and each one from my narrative series has many stories to tell. I am happy to share some of them with you.
Many of them involve certain passages in my life which include all that was occurring in both my intimate world and the one surrounding me.
“Stolen Soul House”
A story of deception and betrayal and greed.
23" x 31" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Arches
“People Who Live In Red Houses Shouldn’t Throw Bones”
This piece was exhibited at the Josephine Butler Center in Washington, D.C.
18" x 24" (image) Gouache, M/M on Arches
Framed with archival materials, museum style with light wood.
“My Piece of Heaven”
There are many interesting tales to tell about this one…Come up for dinner and I’ll gladly tell you one by one.
Image 18" x 24" Gouache, pen and acrylic on Arches Paper.
This piece has been professionally framed with a light wood
22" x 28" .
18" x 24" (image) Mixed Media on Arches. Framed size 22" x 30"
Isolation and desire for connection.
22" x 33"
Gouache, Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink on Arches Paper
“We Would Be Heroes”
Image size 18" x 24" Gouache, Acrylic on Arches Paper
Archivally Framed and Mounted Dimensions 22" x 30"
Image 18" x 24" Mixed Media on Arches Paper
Framed archival acid free materials 22" x 30"
Narcissism, dangerous liaisons and shooting one’s self in the foot.
Image: 18" x 24" Gouache, Pen & Ink on Arches Paper
Framed with archival materials in light wood. 22" x 30"
While working on my MFA, one of my advisors noted that there is a lot of movement in my work, and asked me "If you didn't paint, and you could do anything that you wanted, what would you do?" My heart jumped and I screamed out DANCE!!!! So with that I began an intensive period of dance education with Eryn Schon Brunner and Pilates for the dancer. The result is "Five Stages of THIS Artist's Life" a 37 minute film, the shortened version can be seen on vimeo. https://vimeo.com/1443277
This wonderfully blurred image was taken by my classmate Jose, at Transart Institute, in NYC. I was delivering my presentation, performance and afterwards an advisor exclaimed "This is live art!!!"
At home with Chase, the monkey, the sculpture.
Photo Credit: Ree Slocum
Each of these five sculptures represents a stage in my life. To come are the written pieces that accompany them. See the shortened video on vimeo. More to come.
Photo Credit: Ree Slocum
