Jessica Demcsak
Fragment of Place
2020
Acrylic on wood
4" x 4" x 4"

About the work

Jessica Demcsak began creating architectural paintings on wood during her MFA program in 2002. These explorations about the home, memory and meaning transformed into documentations of storms when she visited New Orleans two weeks before Hurricane Katrina. She re-visited New Orleans after the storm to document the architecture. After New Jersey's Super Storm Sandy, Jessica began painting on firewood which was the most vital material to have during the loss of power.

Her recent work has been informed by the increasing and intensifying storms due to climate change. The work honors the homes, buildings, and families that have been destroyed and the memories and ghosts that remain.

About the artist

Jessica Demcsak is a New Jersey artist. She received her BFA in Painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1999, her MA in Art Education from Kean University in 2001, and her MFA in Painting from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2004. Demcsak has exhibited in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania area. Her work has been included in New American Paintings Magazine as well as New Jersey Monthly. In 2005, she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant. She currently resides in Bridgewater New Jersey with her husband and three children.

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