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New Exhibit Opening at The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards

“A Place of Leaves and Earth” at The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards, High Point, NC January 25-April 19, 2024

Meanwhile in the garden, 2022, oil on canvas, 30×40 inches

(January 4, 2024, High Point, NC) Award-winning artist Jessica Singerman announces her exhibition of works entitled A Place of Leaves and Earth opening at The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards on January 25 and continuing through April 19, 2024. The opening reception is free and open to the public on Thursday January 25th, 5:00 – 7:30 PM.

Says Singerman, “Making my work and moving my body outside have always been the ways that I process things. The work in this exhibit is deeply personal, generated by time I spend in nature alone and with family and friends. It is also born from the range of emotions I feel as I read the news and I make my way through the world as a human. My grief and anger and fear over our changing environment and socio-political upheaval are filtered through the quiet meditative space I find when I’m moving through nature and is sublimated into the artwork.

This exhibit is comprised of paintings, video, sound, sculpture, and installation made in the last 5 years, a culmination of ideas that have percolated over the last two decades, and of giving myself the grace to learn new techniques and ways to engage the senses.

I hope you’ll experience this work through a poetic lens and allow yourself to be flooded with the sensations and memories this work evokes.”

Emily Gerhold, Director of the Sechrest Gallery of Art and Assistant Professor of Art History at High Point University, writes “Singerman’s work first engages they eye with its color and vibrancy, and one cannot help but feel excited as they are welcomed into the space suggested by her gestural, energetic brushwork. But, balanced with the dynamic elements of her work are passages that inspire deep feelings of tranquility… [This exhibit] will invite audiences to meditate on the myriad embodied responses, from the ecstatic to the profound, provoked by encounters with the beauty and power of the natural world.”

The artwork in the exhibition can be purchased at the gallery.

About the artist: Jessica Singerman earned her BA with Highest Honors in 2002 from the College of William & Mary, Virginia, and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2004 from the University of Delaware while on a fellowship. Her award-winning paintings and drawings are exhibited and collected internationally. Singerman lives and works in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

THE ART GALLERY AT CONGDON YARDS, including A place of leaves and earth, by Jessica Singerman, January 25 – April 19. 400 W English Dr, Suite 151, High Point, NC 27262, www.tagart.org 336-887-2137.

Happy New Year and 2023 Year in Review

Happy New Year! I read somewhere that it’s a good practice to pause and reflect on the previous year, so I’ll do that here and celebrate some highlights with you. Here we go in no particular order:

  • I had the chance to be interviewed on two podcasts: Red House with musician and music producer Tyler Nail and Free Pizza with photographer Daniel White.
  • My work was juried into ArtFields in Lake City, SC. Experiencing the closing festivities there was a highlight for me and my family.
  • One of my paintings travelled to Kyrgyz Republic as part of the US Department of State’s Art in Embassies program.
  • Saatchi Art featured my painting Of Stones and Earth and Air in their gallery.
  • And the two I am most proud of: I won the Pilot Mountain Trail Marathon women’s division, and I worked from March to December on building up to 10 consecutive pull-ups!

Now I’m focusing on getting work ready for my upcoming exhibit in High Point, NC. My show opens at the Art Gallery at Congdon Yards on Thursday January 25th, 5-7:30pm. I’m showing paintings, video, sound and sculpture. Scroll down for a peek at what I’m up to in the studio.

Using a propane torch to fuse encaustic paint on one of my sculptures.
Compressing as much fabric as I can into one of many bundles…

Turkey Hangover – A Remedy and a Gift Guide!

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and I’m feeling slightly hungover and I don’t even drink. I’ll blame that second plate of food I served myself even though I was full.

We all know the best remedy is spending some time moving your body outside getting some fresh air and sunlight in your eyes. Assuming you’ve already done that or are planning to later today, what’s the next best thing? Art of course! In that vein, here’s a guide for gifting art for everyone on your list:

For the plant lover

A pack of 10 greeting cards, each featuring a different botanical watercolor of plants I found on walks near my home.

For the one seeking peace and calm

A book featuring 100 watercolors inspired by the poetry of nature: color and light in the landscape, seasons, and the passing of time. Each watercolor was made as a kind of meditation and as a love letter to life and painting.

For the cyclist

A print of my painting “The Cyclists” available in a standard and easy to frame size: 11×14 inches. All my prints are archival pigment prints on heavy weight matte fine art paper and I sign each one.

For the mystery lover

Midday wander, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

An oil painting of people exploring a mysterious landscape…

For the Dog Lover

Land With Dog, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

When I made this, I didn’t mean to paint a dog. When I finished, it was just there. It happens.

For the backyard lover

Petals Fall In The Pond 2, oil on panel, 14 x 11 inches

A  contemplative painting playing with the colors and shapes of chairs and table and trees, creating a space for conversation.

For the person who has everything

Of Stones and Earth and Air, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

A painting so big it will fill a wall. This painting is 5 feet tall x 6 feet wide. It’s so big, when you put it in a room, you don’t even need furniture.

And after you’ve chosen your perfect art gifts, I recommend another walk out in the sun, listening to birds singing and hearing leaves crackling under foot. Cheers!

New Paintings Arriving!

We finally got around to shooting my new work this weekend… which means these paintings will be available for purchase. Subscribers will get first dibs this week before the work goes live here on my shop, so if you don’t already get my emails, follow this LINK to sign up.

There is something odd or awkward about the images, and at the same time a sense of joy. By playing with shapes, color and composition, I’m searching for a way to elevate the ordinary.

Searching on the Wind… and Paper Mountain is coming BACK!

I’m super excited to share with you that the Sechrest Gallery at High Point University has invited me to show Paper Mountain, Sky Project and a group of paintings in a solo show this fall. If you’ve been following my work for a few years, you might remember Paper Mountain as the 14-foot tall mountain of 1200 folded paper cranes I suspended at Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art in spring 2019. The project took a couple of years from start to finish, and seeing it installed was truly validating as an artist, so I’m happy to be able to exhibit it in another space and to share it with more people. Stay tuned for more about that as we get closer to installation week in October.

With its sheer size, Paper Mountain can be an immersive experience for viewers. While my newest paintings aren’t monumental in scale, the paintings in the Searching on the wind collection are immersive in their special own way.

These landscapes evoke wide open spaces: big skies, meadows, forests, mountains and rivers. Each painting is a meditative play of shapes and colors.

If you let them, these paintings may just transport you to your favorite mountain or river or forest… 

Find them all HERE and please don’t hesitate to message me if you have questions about any of the work, payment or shipping.

PS: Recently a client asked me if it was safe to ship paintings these days. The answer is YES! I am shipping artwork wherever USPS, Fedex and UPS will travel.

“I must love you very much” opening at SECCA September 2019

It’s my pleasure to announce that my first solo museum show opens at SECCA in Winston-Salem next month. Read on for the press release with all the juicy details…

Jessica Singerman, “Unhearable Sounds,” 2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

 

(August 20, 2019, Winston-Salem, NC) Award-winning painter Jessica Singerman announces her exhibit of paintings entitled I MUST LOVE YOU VERY MUCH, opening at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) on September 17 and continuing through October 13. The opening reception takes place on Thursday September 19, from 6:00-8:00 PM, with an artist talk at 7:00 PM. Artwork will be available for purchase.

In Singerman’s monumental paintings, layered shapes meet muscular paint handling and a bold use of color to evoke a vast landscape and memories of time spent in the outdoors.

Says Singerman of these paintings, “There’s a line from a Mary Oliver poem that goes “If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.” Her writing cuts to the essential about what matters and what I hope to share in my work. It feels especially poignant these days – our world feels crazy and I’m afraid to lose the lands I love so much. One of my favorite such places is Pilot Mountain State Park. It inspires my work with its beauty as it overlooks the landscape surrounding it. This group of paintings came from time I spent hiking there with my family – views from the trail-side and of a pastoral landscape – not wild, but full of a vast energy nonetheless.

Mary Oliver’s writing encapsulates something essential about the human condition and about our experience in nature. If my paintings could speak, I like to think Mary’s poetry is how they would speak. Or rather, I hope that my paintings get close to the kind of transcendence of her poetry. Marks and color that transcend being and take the viewer to another place – a memory perhaps – and spur them to reflect on what it means to be human and on our relationship to nature. In any case, “if you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”

Arts writer Michael Solender wrote in the Charlotte Observer, “Singerman’s approach to her work and her outlook on life brings a broad perspective as a product of a bicultural upbringing. Her mother is French and her father is American.(…) Her work offers explosions of color, form and light conjuring imagery of motion and depth.”

About the artist: A resident of North Carolina since 1980, Jessica Singerman lived alternatively in France and the United States during her early life. Singerman earned her BA with Highest Honors in 2002 from the College of William & Mary, Virginia, and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2004 from the University of Delaware while on a fellowship. Her watercolors are the subject of a book published in 2017, Little Watercolor Squares, and her award-winning paintings and drawings are exhibited and collected internationally. Singerman lives and works in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For more information visit www.jessicasingerman.com.

SOUTHEASTERN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, including I MUST LOVE YOU VERY MUCH, by Jessica Singerman, September 17 – October 13. Opening reception Thursday September 19, 6:00-8:00 PM, and artist talk at 7:00 PM.
750 Marguerite Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, www.secca.org, 336.725.1904

For more information contact:
Jessica Singerman, (336) 283-0185
create@jessicasingerman.com

Private viewing of the “Shape of the Sky” at Salem College

My exhibit of paintings “The Shape of the Sky” is on view at the Elberson Fine Arts Center at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC until October 5th. So if you weren’t able to make it to the opening last Friday, there’s still time to see the show! Watch the video above for a tour of the exhibit.

In these paintings, I continue to explore the intersection of the outdoor experience and painting. The forces of nature are an ongoing source of inspiration in my life and work, and in these paintings, I aim to share that with you and to inspire you.

While the work is on display, you can still purchase the paintings online. They will be marked as sold in the exhibit and shipped the week of October 15th. Visit the Gallery Shop to bring these paintings into your life.

I donate 5% of the sales of my works to Yadkin Riverkeeper, a local non-profit that “seeks to respect, protect and improve the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin through education, advocacy and action.”

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