Spring is springing in Brooklyn and I love seeing all the little flowers popping up! Meanwhile I am attending an art incubator program with Visionary Projects/Tableau this month and getting lots of ideas and motivation from that… and I am also test printing some of my digital works at Supreme Digital in Bushwick in hopes of exhibiting and selling them physically. Very excited about it. I also had my first reiki session ever today at Grand Street Healing in Williamsburg and it was pretty wonderful.
studio // recent digital paintings
It was exciting to see my digital work printed in such a large format for the NYCB Fall Gala. It inspired me to continue my digital painting practice but to only make super hi-res paintings in Procreate that can be scaled up to billboard size if needed. I find digital painting to be satisfying in so many ways - not comparable to physical painting but it is a whole different way/ medium/ challenge for interacting with my intuitive painting style … and can be done in any setting! The thrill of nomandic painting, in a way.
exhibition // "Vivid Vibrations" show, The Yard in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
I am honored to have my painting “Nest” be chosen to be a part of this show at The Yard co-working space in Brooklyn. The show is on view for three months.
commission // NYCB Fall Gala banners
Very grateful to have this exciting painting commission! A world-renowned event company commissioned me to make 4 large scale autumnal paintings for the New York City Ballet Fall 2023 gala event.
Although not my usual style, I drew from my past formal art education in order to create 4 Impressionistic fall scenes. These digital paintings are made Procreate in a super high resolution - when they were printed at 27 feet high they still look crisp and clean.
design // DY dinner menu
As you may know - I am also a freelancer graphic designer after spending may years doing it FT professionally while I worked on my painting practice. I love how it stretches my creative muscles in a different way. This summer I was honored to be asked to design the Save The Date evite, a printed invitation and a beautifully printed menu (triple mount, deboss, letterpress with gilded edges) for this event in NYC in September.
exhibition // "Mapping The Abstract" - Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY
Very pleased that my diptych painting, “Mind Machine”, was accepted into a group show at the Pinkwater Gallery in Kingston, NY along with 26 other women abstract artists from New York State. The show is on view from Sept. 16, 2023 through October 28, 2023.
studio // works on paper
During the summer I am in Westport, MA a lot, close to the ocean. I have a small garage studio set up there with a nice view and breeze coming through. I also help my many young nieces and nephews make art on paper with me most days. These are some of the works I produced during that time. These works are mostly 11”x14” and made on heavyweight paper with acrylic paint and some mixed media.
exhibition // Greenpoint Open Studios recap
I loved open studio day so much - get to see and meet so many people that come through. Sold a few paintings right off the wall!
Thank you all who visited.
exhibition // Greenpoint Open Studios
This weekend! Excited to be a part of open studios!
https://greenpointopenstudios.com/artists/jessica-krause-smith-2023/
press // Greenpoint Open Studios 2023
I’m participating in Greenpoint Open Studios 2023! June 10 and 11.
Its been years since GOS open studios last happened.
Check out the map and site map online + stop by and say hi …and see some of my work IRL.
exhibition // "NYC Vibes", Bushwick Street Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC
On Friday October 14, 2022 four of my 16”x20” paintings from 2021 were on view for the night in the “NYC Vibes Art Show” at the Bushwick Street Art / 1444 DeKalb event space in Brooklyn.
(L-R) “Jewelry Box”, “Home Is Where The Heart(s) Is (Are)”, “In The Beginning”, “Every Which Way”
exhibition // "Ultra Local" at Van Der Plas Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC
Catching up on exhibitions! My 12”x16”, acrylic on canvas painting titled “Fancy Flip” was on view at the “Ultra Local” art show at Van Der Plas Gallery in the Lower East Side of NYC in May 2021.
digital painting // NFTs on OpenSea
In addition to Foundation, I have a few collections of 1/1 digital abstract paintings minted and available on OpenSea.
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digital painting studio // NFTs on Foundation
I joined the WEb3 NFT space this year!
Some of my physical works are minted as NFTs on Foundation.
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studio // I'm on Artfare
Six paintings of mine are up and for sale on Artfare! Click either image to view!
studio // South Coast Massachusetts studio
In July 2020 since the pandemic was still raging in NYC and it was summer, my family and I relocated temporarily again to live in south coast Massachusetts where my family has a beach home. I have gone there every summer since I was born, as have generations of my family before me. It was beautiful being there and living and painting in that environment for many months as summer turned to fall. I took over a portion of an attached outdoor shed/workspace as my studio which I shared with my father and his woodworking tools and projects. I had easy outdoor access and it was great to paint flat on the ground and have huge sliding doors to easily move my paintings outside. There was lots of humid ocean air (which made the paint take forever to dry but allowed me to easily use spray paint again!) and a view of the constantly changing ocean and big sky which influenced my work.
studio // West Virginia studio
In March 2020 when the pandemic started in NYC and schools shut down and workers went fully remote, my family and I left Brooklyn and relocated temporarily to my husband’s family home in a small town in the mountains of West Virginia. I had not been out of NYC for this long temporarily in over 20 years. In West Virginia we figured out that I could set up a studio in a basement space. I was thrilled to have dedicated space to paint with a window. There are two old pinball machines down there with me. Super cool to look at. The feel of the green spring forest, creatures like hawks and deer, and the mountains and fresh mountain air outside combined with this basement space filled with interested vintage things and the dreaded uprooted feeling of the pandemic and political climate at the time fueled a lot of my work.
exhibition // "Inner Glow", Walter Wickiser Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
With my paintings (L-R) Beautiful, Star Child and Nest in the “Inner Glow” group show
October 3-23, 2019
exhibition // "INNER GLOW" opening night
Walter Wickiser Gallery, Chelsea NYC
Oct. 3, 2019
exhibition // "INNER GLOW" group show
INNER GLOW
Alise Loebelsohn, Jessica Krause Smith, Hayley Youngs
Curated by Tansy Xiao
Sept. 28 – Oct. 23
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 6–8 PM
Walter Wickiser Gallery
310 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 303, Chelsea, NYC