~ Jessica Tyler ~

New Site!

2010-06-30T19:17:00.000-07:00

I am moving myself over to a new site!

Lucent Layer
http://jessicatyler.wordpress.com/

It will hopefully be a more energetic site with day to day art.
This blog will be the keeper of my older work.

Pictures from the show!

2010-04-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

Here are the paintings I had in my recent show with the Coho Crew.
To see images from the reception, check out the Coho website and Flickr set.
http://cohophiladelphia.wordpress.com/

The Pink Precipitate of Mountains - Mixed Media on Canvas.

Shipwreck - Mixed Media on Canvas

Paper Wrist - Paper on Canvas

COHO SHOW!

2010-03-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

I am having a show in Old City with my artist group, The Cohoquinoque Crew! (http://cohophiladelphia.wordpress.com)

I am excited to have two new works finished for this exhibition and if there is space I will put a third oldie as well.

The show will be during the Philagrafika and NCECA festivals, which means there will be a lot of fun and exciting events taking place, especially ours!
We are having a reception on the first Friday of April and will have gallery hours throughout that week.
Check out our show card below for more info!

Little Paintings finished!

2010-02-02T20:56:00.000-08:00

Here are a few smaller paintings I have recently finished.

Works-in-Progress

2010-02-02T20:50:00.000-08:00

It is 2010! All I have to show for the end of 2009 is a lot of unfinished work. Well I guess I should say works in progress. I am determined to finish these pieces for an upcoming show.
Here are a few shots of different pieces which I am working on at the moment.

Here are a few shots of an accidental landscape on my pallet:

Old Etchings

2010-02-02T19:36:00.000-08:00

These are a few etchings I did back in college. They are about the experience I undertook with braces. It was a miserable time to have teeth! I made an entire book of etchings and binded it with wire.
I miss etching, it was the only printmaking technique I really enjoyed.

Familiar Shapes

2009-03-06T14:07:00.001-08:00

Here are some of my latest paintings and drawings. Most of these were in the Chestnut Hill Gallery Show. I was working from a model I made and materials I used in these are a continuation of my previous experiments with dyes, bleach, paper collage and encaustic.
1.) Shipwreck
2.) Gutted Through
3.) Gift
4.) The Catalyst

Tyler School of Art Student Exhibition

2009-02-19T17:00:00.000-08:00

I am in a show with some great artists from college, Anne Buckwalter, Andrea Caldarise, and Lyla Duey. We will be showing at the Chestnut Hill Gallery, the opening reception is this Saturday, Feb. 21st, 5:30 -8:00.
I have a few older works in the show along with some new work.
I will post some pictures of the reception and the new work soon!

College Finale - Art from 2008

2009-02-19T16:27:00.000-08:00

It was my last semester at Tyler School of Art, I had my own studio and I was very motivated to experiment with new materials - dyes, encaustic, and collage elements. The final pieces (closest to the top) were inspired by a trip to Centralia, PA (http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm), which have led me to different ideas and methods and new work.

1 - Void of Mass (and details)
2 - Air Connection (and details)
3 - Plate Tectonics
4 - Four Experiments
5 - Fishing for Space
6 - Netted Sunrise
7 - Smoke and Pearls

Finding my way a ROMA - Art from 2008

2008-05-29T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here are a few paintings I did in Rome, the city of layered cities. Rome provoked me to re-evaluate my personal approach to painting, so every painting contains numerous layers of mediums and process'. To record each layer a picture was taken after each one was applied, along with details of the paintings. Some paintings I went way to far, so I took a picture after each layer was put down, this was a good exercise for learning when enough is enough.

1 - Unspoken Collaboration of Evolutionary Steps
2 - 27 Memoric Trypanosomes Changing into their 5th coat
3 - Specimen: Taenia Solium
4 - Specimen: Thematode
5 - Destruction of the Nematodes; the 2nd melarsoprol flood

Time for an Epic Shift - Art from 2007

2008-05-29T12:26:00.000-07:00

Taking time on one painting forced me to meditate on my ideas before I initiated the technique. I spent a good amount of time on this piece, which was inspired by the bodies defense system against infection.

Breaktime = Playtime in Tokyo, Japan - Art from 2007

2008-05-29T12:03:00.000-07:00

I went to Tokyo, Japan for the Temple summer Drawing program. I spent 6 weeks exploring, I had a blast, I soaked up the culture and tried new things, like karaoke! It was nice to be able to just let go and play! Usually drawing for me runs in two directions. One way is an instinctual, free flowing progression, which I morph into a final piece, that somehow culminates all the thoughts and experiences I had along the way. The other is, I use drawing as a plan for my paintings. In Japan I mostly did the first way, making each project stand on its own.

Project 4 - I'll keep your secrets for you
Project 3 - Take A Moment
You could walk into this piece, it was black inside and you could sit down, while people kept moving around you. One day I will make a mobile version, to put in the streets of a busy city, maybe back in Tokyo!
Project 2 - Designer Prayer Bag
Project 1 - Found Mark Making Marking the Landscape

Stuck on Stuck Imagery - Art from 2007-2008

2008-05-29T11:53:00.000-07:00

I was experimenting with more materials, including more painterly materials such as mediums (cold wax!) and I started to use panel as one of my support options. However after these works, I was still not satisfied with the imagery I was using and I was confused if I needed or even wanted a narrative at all.

The Beginnings of a Strategy - Art from 2005- 2006

2008-05-29T11:43:00.000-07:00

This was the beginning of my passion for materials. The materials used are not considered art materials, they were all found at home depot, such as tar paper, caulking, house paint, all kinds of found paper... etc. I used a dried-out sunflower to focus me on the materials and process rather then a narrative. I slowly learned how important it is to consider the medium used and how that effects how people view and understand the work.

Searching through the muck- art from 2005-2006

2008-05-29T10:45:00.000-07:00

This is early work, where I became interested in internal landscapes and abstraction. I would use my internal eye to map out bodily functions and emotional processes, then express them with a language of landscape and simple visuals. At this point the materials used weren't concentrated on, the charcoal, ink, the pastels, color and even the paper support were just the basic tools of drawing.