Jessica Smith

“I WANT TO MAKE ART WHERE THE SOUL IS PRESENT. MY WORK HOLDS THE NATURAL WORLD IN DIALOGUE. ACTING AS BOTH SUBJECT AND CONVERSATIONALIST, MOTHER CASTS HER SPELL. CONCEPTS FLOW FROM THIS SHARED REALM OF BOTH INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR.”

I MAke work from a great house of space and pure emotion. I EMBRACE THE FACT THAT IN MY WORKS I AM GRAPPLING WITH AN ISSUE. Complexity arises. MY RESPONSE IS IMAGERY BUT NOT IN ISOLATION FROM WORDS AND STATEMENTS; SOUND AND ACTION. I AM A CURIOUS PERSON AND MY PROCESS ALLOWS ME TO FLIRT WITH IDEAS, INDULGE AND MOVE ON.

As artists we act as bridge builders as social engineers. We are wayfinders. In my artwork, I highlight this unnamed beauty, as I see it, in its entirety.

ARTIST HOLISTIC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Dorset Library, Dorset, VT 2016

Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2017

Slipping Climates, Dorset Library, Dorset, VT 2019

Pop Up Gallery Equinox Hotel, Manchester, VT May 2019

A Gathering of Change, Dorset Library, Dorset, VT 2021

Rupert R K Kittay Library Spring and Summer 2022

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Vermont Artists Then and Now, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2017

Fall Member Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2017

Winter Member Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2017

Summer Member Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2018

Fall Member Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2018

Vantage Point, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2018

Blades Will Sprout, Northern Daughters Gallery, Vergennes, VT 2018

Vantage Point, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2018

Spring Showing McCartee’s Fine Art Salem, NY 2019

Changing Light, Equinox Hotel, Manchester, VT October 2019

Spring Showing McCartee’s Fine Art Salem, NY 2020

Rupert R K Kittay Library, Rupert, VT Spring 2020

The Arts Center of the Capital Region 120° Intercollegiate Art Regional Exhibition 2021

Transient Beauty, Bennington Museum Winter 2021

Laugh with Us {Cry With Us}, Bennington College Spring 2022

NBOSS, Bennington Museum Summer/Fall 2022

Academia Perpetua, The Left Bank Gallery North Bennington April 2023

LOTTERY IN JUNE, CORN BE HEAVY SOON, The Left Bank Gallery North Bennington June & July 2023

Rupert R K Kittay Library, Rupert, VT July 2023

Art in The Public Realm, CAPA, Bennington College Fall 2024

Art in Embassies Installation, Chiang Mai, Thailand Commission 2024 -

HONORS

Alfred T. Granger Student Art Fund Scholarship 2019/20

Iftekhar Entrepreneurial Fellowship 2020 recipient

Alfred T. Granger Student Art Fund Scholarship 2021/22

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Mentorship and Collaboration Program recipient Summer 2021

REPRESENTATION

For more information regarding these works, please contact the artist directly. jessicasmithpainting@gmail.com

Cheers