Jessie Coles

  • Selected Works

    Breakfast Room, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 42″ Sold

    The Open Door, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 60″ Sold

    Red Chair and Pomegranates, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 36” Sold

    Compote and Plates of Fruit, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 42″ Sold

    Cabbage and Cups, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 42”

    White Eggplant, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 36″ Sold

    Watermelon, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40” Sold

    Blue Creamer Echo, 2016. Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24” Sold

    Bananas #9, 2017. Charcoal and acrylic on panel, 16 x 20″

    Blue Pitcher and Celery, 2016. Acrylic on board, 18 x 24″

    Brown Beer Bottle, 2017. Acrylic on panel, 16 x 12”

    Coffee Pitcher, 2016. Charcoal on panel, 18 x 24”

    Five Apples, 2016. Acrylic on panel, 24 x 18” Sold

    Blue and Yellow, 2016. Charcoal on panel, 18 x 24”

    Long Butternut, 2017. Acrylic on panel, 18 x 24″

    Peaches and Bananas, 2017. Acrylic on panel, 24 x 18″

    Red Glass Bowls, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18″

    Sweet Pea, 2016. Acrylic on board, 14 x 11″ Sold

    Disappearing Chair, 2017. Acrylic on board, 30 x 40″ Sold

  • Previous Exhibitions

    Summer Light
    15 July – 21 August 2016
    Exhibition page

    Twenty!
    LYDM Turns 20 in 2015
    9 January – 1 February 2015
    Exhibition page

    New Views in Still Life and Landscape
    Jessie Coles and Susan Mcalister
    16 May – 15 June 2014
    Exhibition page

  • Statement

    Artist Statement

    Energy and movement are the real subject of my still life paintings. In setting up a still life, I look for an initial gestural path connecting the objects in the painting. Over repeated painting sessions, new and unexpected paths emerge. The constant rethinking of what connections to emphasize and which to let recede puts a tension into play. Things grow, shrink and get shifted right and left and the residue of these changes add unexpected rhythms to the paintings. Similarly, over time the interaction of color appears to change in timbre. As these changes are documented, unexpected colors knock against each other creating an energy and excitement I never could have predicted.

    The resulting paintings are more expressive than accurate, less about a moment glimpsed than about a duration of time and a multiplicity of observations.

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Jessie Coles Resumé_June 2017