Jessica Dickinson

Jessica Dickinson
Born1975 (age 50–51)
Education

Jessica Dickinson (born in 1975) is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Early life and education

Dickinson earned a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997, and she got her MFA in painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Career

Dickinson makes only four paintings a year, cultivating a slow and methodical practice. While her paintings evolve over many months, her drawing projects – notebook drawings, traces, works on paper, and remainders – extend her painted explorations through their own particular materialities and modalities.

Dickinson typically begins by spreading limestone polymer, or spackle, onto wooden panels. She, then, sands the thick coats of spackle until smooth, and layers thin swaths of oil paint that are absorbed into the plaster. After creating the base, Dickinson carves, gouges, scrapes, and paints, manipulating the surface itself in a careful cycle of construction and destruction. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum notes that, “her paintings mimic a process of decay by exposing the impact of time on the medium”.

Key exhibitions

Public collections

Dickinson’s work is included in the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; the Zabludowicz Collection, London; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Awards and residencies

References

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  5. ↑ Dickinson, Jessica (2015). Under, press. with-this, hold-, of-also, of/how, of-more, of:know. New York, N.Y.: Inventory Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-941753-04-0. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  6. ↑ Westfall, Stephen (1 February 2018). "Slow Painting". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction". Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "Jessica Dickinson: From: Know-Here-With-This". Altman Siegel. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "Jessica Dickinson With". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "Dickinson Exhibits at American University Art Museum". Cranbrook Academy of Art. 2 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "Jessica Dickinson, As: Now, Altman Siegel". Altman Siegel. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  12. ↑ "New Ruins, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC". American University. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  13. ↑ Smith, Nathaniel. "Art & Vision: Intermittent Archives" (PDF). l'étoile magazine. l'étoile. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  14. ↑ Dickinson, Jessica (2015). Under, press. with-this, hold-, of-also, of/how, of-more, of:know. New York, N.Y.: Inventory Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-941753-04-0. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  15. ↑ "Sound & Vision: Episode 251 / Jessica Dickinson on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts.
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