Bio

Jessica Joy London was born in Guyana and grew up in Florida. She received a BFA with Distinction from the University of South Florida and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Since 2001 Joy has been an exhibiting artist in the contemporary art world. She has been featured in the Smithsonian, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the International Auto Show and is collected in many private and public collections.

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Artist Statement

Jessica Joy London’s work unearths the wonders hidden in the everyday. In the grocery store, she rifles through the onions collecting onion skin. On walks, she collects trash and weeds from the sidewalks of her South Philadelphia neighborhood. Everything she sees is fair game to be included in experiments on her hydrophobic science lab-like surfaces. Each experiment is a collaboration with natural phenomena: surface tension, evaporation, dispersion.

In her studio, like the lab she spent time in in graduate school, she uses acrylic ink to make normally invisible interactions visible, providing a deeper understanding of the beauty and complexity of everyday phenomena. Michelle Grabner described her paintings as “contemporary photographs” because of her unique alchemical process and the resulting photographic details of her finished pieces.

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