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Artist talk jessica jackson hutchins
Jessica Jackson Hutchins (born 1971) is an American artist from Chicago, Illinois who is based in Portland, Oregon. Her practice consists of large scale ceramics, multi-media installations, assemblage, and paintings all of which utilize found objects such as old furniture, ceramics, worn out clothes, and newspaper clippings. She is most recognizable for her sloppy craft assemblages of furniture and ceramics. Her work was selected for the 2010: Whitney Biennial, featured in major art collections, and has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, in Iceland, the UK, and Germany.
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Life and work
Jessica Jackson Hutchins received a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, graduating Cum Laude. In 1997 she finished a Post-Baccalaureate degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She went on to receive an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Though she was in the Painting and Drawing Department, she produced very little paintings as she preferred to work in wire and papier-mâché. Hutchins studied under and was influenced by Susanne Doremus and Gaylen Gerber.
Her use of every day objects has evolved over the years based on her surroundings. In college, she incorporated beer bottles and packaging. After college, coffee cups appeared in her work. Post becoming a mother, she included her children's worn-out clothing. Motherhood and her children have become some of the most influential factors in her work. Much of Hutchin's work is about the domestic sphere and human interaction with forms acting as substitutions for the human form. The furniture pieces used in her work were once in her own home.
The Portland Mercury reported in September 2006 that "her ceramics (steeped in a California funk attitude), papier-mache sculptures, and collages share a crass aesthetic and a preoccupation with the thin line between disaster and success that disguise a genuine attempt to convey ideas about communion, fear, and loneliness." Her show at Reed College's Caseworks drew similar analysis.
Hutchins moved to Berlin in 2011 and returned to making paintings and wall-hung assemblages, having brought almost no materials with her. The paintings utilized everyday household objects such as folding chairs and china plates juxtaposed with transparent linen stretched over window-like frames.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins was included in the 2013 Venice Biennial by curator Massimiliano Gioni. In summer 2016, she was selected by artist and curator Michelle Grabner to participate in the 2016 Portland Biennial.
Personal life
Hutchins is married to former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. They have two children, Lottie and Sunday.
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Kurt, May 13 – September 9
2009
Seattle, Western Bridge, Parenthesis, September 25 – December 29
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Dirt on Delight, April 16 – June 21; travelled to Minneapolis, The Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, catalogue, July 11 – November 29
Milawaukee, INOVA, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Place of the Transcommon, curated by Nicholas Frank, February 2 – March 16, 2008
2006
Portland, OR, Small A Projects, Peace at Home: The War Never Left (solo)
New York, Derek Eller Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition, June 29 - August 13
New York, Alexandre Gallery, Your Beauty’s Gold is Clay, June 28 – August 4
Portland, OR, Small A Projects, Atlas of the Unknown, 2006
New York, Derek Eller Gallery, Jessica Jackson Hutchins Relics from a Lonely Dinner, February 9 - March 11
Philadelphia, Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Gone Formalism, January 21 – March 26
New York, Derek Eller Gallery, Inaugural Group Exhibition, January 12 - February 4
Portland, OR, an event for Ghosttown with Red76, Lonely Dinner
2005
New York, The Sculpture Center, Make it Now, catalogue, May 15 – July 31
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Parisa Kind Gallery, International Laundry
New York, EFA, I live in a Castle, curated by Jessica Hutchins and Dan Torop
2004
New York, Derek Eller Gallery, March 18 – April 17 (solo)
New York, Champion Fine Art, Escapism: a viable political alternative, curated by Fia Backström, July 22 – August 20
London, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, Five Friends, a film and video 22 program
New York, Debs & Co., Art Star/Sausage Factory, April 15 – May 8
New York, Lombard-Freid Fine Art, Surface Tension, 2004
Kent, UK, Herbert Read Gallery, Ascend to the End
Collections
Hutchins's work is included in the collections of:
Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Portland Art Museum, OR
Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Publications
"Confessions" was commissioned as part of Jessica's two-space exhibition of the same name at the lumber room and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College. It was designed by Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Gary Robbins, and Heather Watkins and published by Container Corps in 2015.
"Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Everything Erblaut" was published in 2013 by the Timothy Taylor Gallery and The Hepworth Wakefield. Kirsty Bell and Colin Lang are contributors (text), with design help from the Purtill Family Business.
"Convivium" was a collaboration of the visual arts of Hutchins and poetry of Tom Fisher. Published by Publication Studio, 2010. [1]
Featured in the BOMB Magazine, edition no. 112 (Summer), in 2010, with an interview by Stuart Horodner.
