STATEMENT

Jessica’s work is primarily a response to stimuli from her environments, experiences, energies and emotions. She explores tension and harmony through moment, movement, memory, and materiality while investigating dualities such as chaos and control, darkness and light, accumulation and flow, and, in some work, the relationship between the digital and physical. She translates inner and outer landscapes, including feelings, dreams, sounds, and fleeting sensations, into a visual language shaped by color, gesture, and mark. Her work is driven by a process that embraces both intention and accident, asking where unplanned gestures originate and how they evolve into resolved compositions. Influenced by time, relationships, culture, and emotion, her paintings evoke nostalgia and a dialogue between the organic and the synthetic, the human-made and the natural, reflecting a sensibility rooted in Yin and Yang balance and the mystery of the connection between the mind, heart, and hand. Drawing inspiration from lived experience, including growing up in upstate New York, summers in New England, and decades in New York City while working in indie and corporate graphic design, she channels the rhythms of natural and urban environments alongside early influences in music, fashion, photography, and design. Her work incorporates a range of materials, including acrylic, latex house paint, spray paint, oil sticks, and found elements such as glitter, torn paper, industrial plastics and objects, built through layered gestures that may develop over time or emerge in a single energetic session. Through improvisation and experimentation, each painting becomes a space for reflection and emotional resonance, an accumulation of responsive marks that embody risk, vulnerability, and the act of absorbing life and reacting to it through abstraction, where expression, redaction, memory, and instinct converge in an exploration of self, nature, and human experience.