Biography

Jessica’s work plots a prevailing theme: momentary shifts in recognition that lie at the crux of identity. She focuses on the ways that portraiture extends beyond likeness. Her installations invite visitors to embark on a journey, one that begins with Jessica’s raw and ennui self-portraits and moves through some of the most poignant portrayals of the human life cycle. Jessica uses formats from recent art history, such as minimalist forms and interdisciplinary media, to create a new art that is steeped in personal emotions, and the interaction with art in the here-and-now.
         Jessica wants to capture the specifics, the nuance, detailed description of a thing, a gesture, or an attitude as a way of capturing more universal patterns. Ultimately, it opens our eyes to the way in which emerging technologies draw out our perpetual impulses toward self-representation and collective contemplation and asks us to reimagine what we know about portraiture.