Jessie Henson
Jessie Henson employs notions of labor and time in her artmaking, seeking ways in which repetitive actions of daily life accrue, build meaning, and refigure the ‘background.’ The resulting forms often resemble environments, maps, landscapes, and scientific diagrams of the natural world. Merging the vernacular of drawing, sculpture, and tapestry, she blurs the boundaries between these worlds, and pushes material elements to the threshold of disintegration under their own force.
Jessie Henson’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with shows in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Berlin. Select residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Windgate Fellowship at Urban Glass, the Laundromat Project, and the Bronx Museum of Art. Henson received a Community Fellowship from Dieu Donné Papermill in 2019 and a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2021. Henson received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and MFA from Rutgers University.
