Jessica Houston

Meet It Halfway Color Print, Contemporary Abstract, Unframed Art

2017

Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston By L. Sasha Gora Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? He...

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 sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...

Harriet Hoult A. Delis by Harriet Hoult is an interesting piece with a lot of light colours which stand out significantly. This is a signed, Limited Edition Giclée print of the origi...

Harriet Hoult The Hensby's Limited Edition Giclee Print Edition of 250 Sheet Size: H 91cm x W 63cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a pie...