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Jessica Houston

American, b. 1970
Jessica Houston (MA, Columbia University) has traveled from pole to pole, using color and light to entangle and provoke questions related to our changing natural world, and our nature within it. She has created site-specific works for the NJ MOCA (NJ); the Castello di Corigliano (Puglia, Italy); and The Albany Airport (Albany, NY). Select exhibitions include Art Mûr Gallery, Montréal, Canada; The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY; and The Latimer House Museum, New York, NY. She has been invited to residencies at The Albers Foundation and CAMAC Center for Art, Science and Technology in France. Her works are funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and are in the collections of La collection Prêt d’œuvres d’art, Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Quebec; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montréal, Québec; Bank of Montréal, Toronto; and the Consulate General of Monaco, Montréal. She has lectured at The Art Institute of Florence; Columbia University; Concordia University; and OCAD University.
Enduring Claims (Antarctica) Digital Print, Contemporary, Unframed
Enduring Claims (Antarctica) Digital Print, Contemporary, Unframed

Enduring Claims (Antarctica) Digital Print, Contemporary, Unframed

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Digital

A Life of Its Own: Contemporary Digital Print, Framed, 24x36\"

A Life of Its Own: Contemporary Digital Print, Framed, 24x36\"

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke natureculture entanglements. Her multimedia projects often include sit...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Digital

Which We Are Part: Contemporary Mixed Media Collage on Paper, 2010-

Which We Are Part: Contemporary Mixed Media Collage on Paper, 2010-

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Collage of photographs and Pantone color swatches on paper Suspended in a Sunbeam, is a series of mixed-media works that span Jessica Houston’s decade-long engagement with the Canad...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Capacity to Self-Organize Digital Print, Contemporary Abstract, 2010-

Capacity to Self-Organize Digital Print, Contemporary Abstract, 2010-

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Text by Nancy Webb In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Digital

The Place of Many Fish, Photography, Arctic Landscape, 22x33 Inches

The Place of Many Fish, Photography, Arctic Landscape, 22x33 Inches

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...

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2010s Jessica Houston

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Photographic Film

They Surveyed the Mountain Peak as a Philosophical
They Surveyed the Mountain Peak as a Philosophical

They Surveyed the Mountain Peak as a Philosophical

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Footprints Mixed Media Collage on Archival Paper, Contemporary Art

Footprints Mixed Media Collage on Archival Paper, Contemporary Art

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...

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2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

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Ink, Archival Paper

The Long View Digital Print, Contemporary Abstract Photography, 2010+

The Long View Digital Print, Contemporary Abstract Photography, 2010+

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Text by Nancy Webb In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...

Category

2010s Contemporary Jessica Houston

Materials

Digital

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