excerpt from Adding & Subtracting, two-person exhibition with Tyler Nansen, 2019, KOA Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford
excerpt from Adding & Subtracting, two-person exhibition with Tyler Nansen, 2019, KOA Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford
Excerpts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate and Land Report 1-15, 2019, screenprint on kitakata paper
Tressa Jones, Excerpts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate and Land Report 1-15, 2019, screen print on kitakata paper
Tressa Jones, Excerpts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate and Land Report 1-15, 2019, screenprint on kitakata paper
Tyler Nansen, Line in Green, 2019, plywood and synthetic paint
Tressa Jones, Excerpts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate and Land Report 1-15 (galleryview), 2019, screenprint on kitakata paper
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
Shift, 2018, screenprint, 16” x 12” (varied edition of 10)
This body of work began a year ago when I was living in Big Sky Country. The American West is vast and awe inspiring but not without a certain amount of unease; the horizon is a pronounced feature in the everyday but unequivocally a place that can never be reached. I always felt small next to that horizon. The horizon in the Middle of America, where this work was created, appears more attainable, as if it is the halfway place between the sea and the sky. These vast blues exemplify that halfway place and its distance, hope, and mystery. Embracing hope means also embracing distance and then, not without uncertainty, things can keep becoming until they are indeed uncircumscribable.
photo credit: Aaron Paden Photography
gallery view, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS, 2017
gallery view, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS, 2017
Horizon Line, 2,000 screen prints, 20' x 7" x 4', 2017
Sky/Sea, screen prints, edition of 10, 10" x 20" each, 2017
photo credit: Sarah Moore
silence: time & distance (detail)
silence: time & distance (detail)
silence: time & distance, 2106, wood, acrylic line, honey, 12' x 10' x 6'
silence: time & distance (detail)
cold lapse (installation view), 2016, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana
cold lapse, 2016, screenprint, 14' x 10'
cold lapse (detail)
silence: time & distance and cold lapse
silence: time & distance and traces (installation view), 2016
traces (installation view), 2016, 30' x 30"
silence: time & distance (detail)
silence: time & distance (detail)
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
Empathy Learned on the Side of the Road, 2018, mixed media screenprint, 15” x 11”
What we perceive and remember is a mix of raw sensory data and belief about what the world is or should be. Personal identity depends on the construction of a conscious story line of self, a matter of our conscious memories over time. Presented here are small unusual objects that served as a memento; a reminder of the event, evening, or blip in time.
The Émile Levassor Museum of Art, Missoula, MT, 2015
