December 2020: Jessica Bizer - Week 1

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I am interested in finding a sense of discovery within the overstimulating energy of the contemporary digital landscape, an infinitely layered space full of diverging and often contradictory narratives.

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My work connects with this unique environment by radiating feelings of fluidity, absurdity and transformation. I use surprising interactions of color and disparate source material to channel the collision of the virtual and actual, and the fantastical and utilitarian. Ordered by the seamlessness of digital aesthetics, the resulting drama in my work communicates a feeling of playful disorientation and expansive possibility.

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I create work centered on multi-media painting and immersive video installations. I live in New Orleans, where I am a founding member of the Good Children Gallery, an artist-run space. My recent work includes several collaborative projects with musicians including Quintron and Eve Maret, as well as designs for Adidas and the fashion label Altar. In October I worked with Reality Breaker, a mobile puppet van performance created by Milagros and Poncili Creación. My recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, and group shows at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary, Satellite Art Fair in Miami and at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn. My work has appeared in Nylon Magazine, Hyperallergic, and on National Public Radio's Studio 360. I have paintings in the collection of the Bennetton Corporation and the New Orleans Museum of Art. I am originally from St. Petersburg, FL and am a 2009 graduate of the University of New Orleans MFA program.