Portfolio – Nazareth College – Art and Design Department
Portfolio application for Assistant Professor of Art, Drawing, and Painting in the Art and Design Department at Nazareth College
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Is-ness I-IX
Installation view: “Is-ness I-IX,” UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, Jan 31 – May 21, 2019, Colorado Springs, CO
“Is-ness VIII,” watercolor, gouache, ink, and acrylic, on saprobic fungi on polystyrene, 22″ x 18,” 2019
“Is-ness IX,” watercolor, gouache, ink, and acrylic, on saprobic fungi on polystyrene, 14″ x 12,” 2019
“Is-ness IX (detail),” watercolor, gouache, ink, and acrylic, on saprobic fungi on polystyrene, 14″ x 12,” 2019
“Is-ness II,” watercolor, gouache, ink, and acrylic, on saprobic fungi on polystyrene, 12″ x 20,” 2019
Saprophytes
Saprophyte III. 55cm x 80 cm
Saprophyte X. 55cm x 80 cm
Saprophyte XI. 55cm x 80 cm
Saprophyte XI (detail). 55cm x 80 cm
All works are sunprints using sun-sensitive dye on handmade paper created from a combination of fungi.
Species include: Trametes versicolor, Trametes hirsuta, Stereum hirsutum, Piptoporus betulinus, Polyporus squamosus, Fomitopsis pinicola, Daedalea quercina, Tapinella atrotomentosa, and others.
Possible Object: debris
Installation view, Event Horizon, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2018
Detail, Installation view, Event Horizon, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2018
Detail, Installation view, Event Horizon, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2018
Possible Object: partial.download. Fresco on foam with wood frame. 2016
Possible Object: debris. Ink, Ink-jet prints, pastel, Viz-Lite, 2016
Detail, Installation view, Event Horizon, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2018
Possible Object: partial.download. Fresco on foam with wood frame. 2016
Straw House
“Straw House,” fresco on straw wattles, dimensions variable, 2018
Foreground: “Oculus Runoff,” background: “Clast Tempatation,” Fresco on straw wattle, 2018
“Infinite Control,” Fresco on straw wattle, 27″ H x 60″ L x 33″ W, 2018
“Infinite Control (detail),” Fresco on straw wattle, 27″ H x 60″ L x 33″ W, 2018
Jessica Langley (b. 1981, USA) is a multimedia artist. She has exhibited her work internationally, and has been an artist-in-residence in numerous programs including Skaftfell Center of Visual Art in Iceland, Askeaton Contemporary Art in Ireland, the SPACES World Artist Program in Cleveland, and the Digital Painting Atelier at OCAD-U in Toronto. She was a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship for research in Iceland, and earned her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. She is an amateur mycologist, and her artwork and writing have been published in the New York Mycological Society Newsletter, New American Paintings, NPR, Hyperallergic, and Temporary Art Review.