Jessie Shinn is a studio artist whose work includes drawing, painting, and collage. She completed her BFA at the University of Arizona in 2009 where she was awarded the Bernard Kornhaber Award for Outstanding Senior in the School of Art. Shinn also holds a BA in creative writing. She has exhibited with the Caladan Gallery, the Tubac Center of the Arts, Joel D. Valdez Main Library, the Lionel Rombach Gallery, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, and the Drawing Studio; and she has been a featured artist at Tucson's Art Market.
Through my work, I hope to reflect honestly the strangeness and ambiguity of the world and my imperfect ability as a human being to perceive and record it. Although I draw from observation, my work is not necessarily realistic. I use marks to record my own experience of space and time, rather than as rendering or illustration. While working, I allow myself to become confused, and try to follow movement and time as well as static shapes. I am attracted to the physical properties of materials, and experiment with media to find patterns, textures, and forms that mimic those of natural processes.
Through my work, I hope to reflect honestly the strangeness and ambiguity of the world and my imperfect ability as a human being to perceive and record it. Although I draw from observation, my work is not necessarily realistic. I use marks to record my own experience of space and time, rather than as rendering or illustration. While working, I allow myself to become confused, and try to follow movement and time as well as static shapes. I am attracted to the physical properties of materials, and experiment with media to find patterns, textures, and forms that mimic those of natural processes.
