Jaya Howey is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1973. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Standard (Oslo) have featured Jaya Howey's work in the past.Jaya Howey's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 508 USD to 528 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2025 the record price for this artist at auction is 528 USD for AR341 Rubrics, sold at Rago Arts and Auction Center in 2025.
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..Through a quiet hostility towards the notion of autonomous artistic production, Howey鈥檚 paintings present a ludic engagement with the current trends and debates about the resurgence of formalist painting...
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..Howey鈥檚 subtle and considered play with the materials and dimensions of the built and stretched surface strikes a humorous contrast with the conversational and often banal titles that he gives the paintings...
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..Situating his work within this tension between two registers of meaning, Howey provides no indication as to which interpretation is preferable or correct...
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..Howey鈥檚 use of contrasting textile and pattern introduce formal complexities and raise questions of taste while underscoring the artist鈥檚 attention to matters of composition and utilitarianism...
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