Multiple Plot Points
Paintings by Jessica Snow
October 30 – December 5, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 30, 6–8 p.m.
Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Multiple Plot Points, thirteen paintings by Jessica Snow. Multiple Plot Points is Snow’s first solo exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.
Created on linen, paper and board, Snow's colorful and geometric paintings play out as coy visual and conceptual struggles. Full of movement, the work seems right on the cusp of change. Tensions between the gestural and the meticulous culminate for fleeting seconds, only to morph and never be seen again. The viewer has the feeling of being a part of something alive and monumental, and at the same time intimate and private.
Of her work Jen Bekman notes: While Jessica’s work gives the initial impression of fluid motion, of unplanned organic gesture, the more time one spends looking, the more the complexities and choices surface. The exuberant, richly saturated paintings should not be underestimated based on their aesthetic appeal. An accessible palette and gestural manner belie the precision and rigor that Jessica brings to her work—an enormous amount of effort that results in a certain effortlessness upon first viewing.
Jessica Snow was born in Berkeley, CA and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Jessica has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and elsewhere across the United States. This year she will be included in exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and ParisConcret. She has received numerous honors including the Artadia Award and the Cadogan Fellowship Award, and was selected for the American Artists Abroad Program in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jessica studied at Mills College, UC Davis, the Sorbonne and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street New York,
New York 10012
Of her work Jen Bekman notes: While Jessica’s work gives the initial impression of fluid motion, of unplanned organic gesture, the more time one spends looking, the more the complexities and choices surface. The exuberant, richly saturated paintings should not be underestimated based on their aesthetic appeal. An accessible palette and gestural manner belie the precision and rigor that Jessica brings to her work—an enormous amount of effort that results in a certain effortlessness upon first viewing.
Jessica Snow was born in Berkeley, CA and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Jessica has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and elsewhere across the United States. This year she will be included in exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and ParisConcret. She has received numerous honors including the Artadia Award and the Cadogan Fellowship Award, and was selected for the American Artists Abroad Program in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jessica studied at Mills College, UC Davis, the Sorbonne and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street New York,
New York 10012
