Jon Imber & Jill Hoy: Side by Side
On View: October 11, 2025 – February 15, 2026
This exhibition is part of our focus on plein air painting during 2025's "Hopper's Nyack: WEEK En Plein Air".
Edward Hopper House Museum and Perry Lawson Fine art, as neighboring art organizations in Nyack, NY, are each exhibiting the work of contemporary artist Jill Hoy and opening their respective shows jointly on October 18th, 2025.
Edward Hopper House Museum and Perry Lawson Fine art, as neighboring art organizations in Nyack, NY, are each exhibiting the work of contemporary artist Jill Hoy and opening their respective shows jointly on October 18th, 2025.
This exhibition celebrates the profound artistic dialogue between two accomplished contemporary painters Jon Imber (1950—2014) and Jill Hoy (b. 1954). Like Edward and Josephine Nivison Hopper, Imber and Hoy forged a lifelong creative bond during their marriage. They continually challenged each other, explored color, form, and abstraction painting side-by-side in their studios and outdoors.
Their journey began in 1991 when they met in Maine. Hoy was a noted landscape painter from Stonington and New York City, while Imber was an influential figurative painter and teacher based in Boston. Their shared passion for art ignited a romance and a partnership. They found inspiration in the rugged coast and fishing village of Stonington and in Hoy’s exuberant and free-flowing garden, a Giverny-inspired space for plein air painting.
The exhibition takes on a poignant dimension as it chronicles their creative dialogue during Imber’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Diagnosed in 2013, he continued to paint despite rapid physical deterioration from this motor neuron disease, adapting his technique by using a brush attached to his left hand. and then eventually with both hands held together at his waist.
“For Jon it is about the challenge, the struggle,” Hoy explained. She painted by her husband’s side, offering unwavering support that inspired him to continue creating, shifting to small format portraits of family and friends, until the end of his life.
Their journey began in 1991 when they met in Maine. Hoy was a noted landscape painter from Stonington and New York City, while Imber was an influential figurative painter and teacher based in Boston. Their shared passion for art ignited a romance and a partnership. They found inspiration in the rugged coast and fishing village of Stonington and in Hoy’s exuberant and free-flowing garden, a Giverny-inspired space for plein air painting.
The exhibition takes on a poignant dimension as it chronicles their creative dialogue during Imber’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Diagnosed in 2013, he continued to paint despite rapid physical deterioration from this motor neuron disease, adapting his technique by using a brush attached to his left hand. and then eventually with both hands held together at his waist.
“For Jon it is about the challenge, the struggle,” Hoy explained. She painted by her husband’s side, offering unwavering support that inspired him to continue creating, shifting to small format portraits of family and friends, until the end of his life.
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Perry Lawson Fine Art (90 N. Broadway, Nyack) is featuring Jill Hoy: Narratives of Form & Color. This solo show features figurative and landscape paintings which captures the immediacy of Hoy's experience and the richness of her imagination. Each painting tells a story and reflects the particular significance of its chosen subject. Opening reception: 5:00-7:00p. Free. Held at Perry Lawson Fine Art, 90 N. Broadway, Nyack. Find out more at Perry Lawson Fine Art.
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