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Jessica Hess

EDUCATION

2003

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island

2000

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1997–98

Saint John’s  Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, Printmaking

 

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Boston 10,  Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Hot Spit,  Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts 
Boston Open Studios Coalition Exhibition, The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, & Special Events, Boston, Massachusetts
 

 

Legends of Style, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
 

 

Future Classics, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
 

 

It's Gouache & Gouache Only,  Andrea Meislin Gallery & Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2007 The Toy Show, Hunsaker / Schlesinger Fine Art, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, California
It's Gouache and Gouache Only, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
58th Annual Art of the Northeast Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
Red & White, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
2006 In the Spirit of Play, The Holiday Toy Show,
Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
26th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Exhibition, 
The Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut
Light In August, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Particular Places, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut 
The Enduring Triumph of Realism, First Church Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts 

Take to the City, Take to the Country, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Printmaking Biennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD

 

Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

2005

Industrial Horizons, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Katz, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Structure II, Gallery Katz, Boston, Massachusetts

2004

No Big Heads, Self Portrait Exhibition ,Student Union Gallery, University Anchorage Alaska

 

24th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Exhibition, 
The Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut

 

Blanche Ames Regional Art Exhibition, Blanche Ames Mansion, Sharon,  Massachusetts

 

Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Staff Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD

2003

Industrial Landscapes, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Katz, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Small Works Group Show, Gallery Katz, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD

 

Trent Burleson Painting Prize Exhibition & Competition, ISB Gallery, RISD

 

The Freak Show, ISB Gallery, RISD

 

Illustration Senior Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD

 

Illustration Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD

2002

Disasters in Genealogy, Red eye Gallery, RISD

 

Blanche Ames Regional Art Exhibition, Blanche Ames Mansion, Sharon Massachusetts

 

Sketch to Finish, Red Eye Gallery, RISD

 

ISB Gallery Exhibition, RISD

 

AWARDS

2006

Stamford Art Association Award for Excellence

2004

Faber Birren National Color Award

2003

Trent Burleson Painting Prize

1999

Rhode Island School of Design Scholarship

 

Publications

2008

New American Paintings Northeast Edition #74