The Aww
Installation view, MFA Exhibition: The Aww, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA 2008
The Aww
This series emphasizes various tropes of painting from Romantic landscapes to Abstract Expressionist “inscapes.” The seriousness of the images is both underscored and uprooted in the playful pairing of subject matter (the cat towers) and the way in which it is painted (the monumental). They sardonically hint at the sublime, and a utopian dream. The cat towers act as alters, and the glowing orb (actually a cat aura) acts as a sentinel within the void.
“Aura,” ink-jet print on paper, 42in x 42in.
“Departure,” watercolor and oil on polypropylene, 48in x 60in.
“Return,” watercolor and oil on polypropylene, 48in x 60in.
“Triple 7: Berber,” Ink on polypropylene, 60in x 144in.
untitled, watercolor and oil on polypropylene, 48in x 60in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on polypropylene, 12n x 14in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
Untitled, watercolor and oil on paper, 22in x 24in.
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.