Jessica Krause Smith is deeply fascinated by the dualities that sculpt human experience—chaos and harmony, spontaneity and structure, wildness and control, darkness and light. Her perspective is rooted in her own journey, one rich with experiences including being a fraternal twin in a large family, growing up in upstate New York at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, boarding school in the Berkshires, annual summers at the sea in Massachusetts and eventually life based in New York City, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being in the center of it all. In the city she paralleled her art practice with a successful career in graphic design, which she credits as both helping her broaden her cultural exposure while also funding and informing her painting. Her art practice’s philosophical lens is shaped by intuition, memory, reaction, experience and the rhythms of both natural and urban environments. Through a dynamic process where chance and intention coexist, she responds to internal energy, external stimuli, and subconscious impulses. The result is an expressive body of work–rich with layered gestures, material experimentation, and evocative energy—that invites the viewer into a contemplative space of reflection, sensory engagement, and poetic resonance.