Jessie Laura Artist Exhibition + Reception 7.13
- July 10 - September 2
- All Day
- The Sea Ranch Lodge
Reception: Saturday, 7.13 from 4pm - 6pm
Exhibition: 7.10 through 9.2
The Sea Ranch Lodge
In Modernist Utopia, San Francisco-based artist Jessie Laura employs a minimalist aesthetic that encourages viewers to develop parallels between her artwork, the Sea Ranch Project, and an otherworldly place of near-perfection.
Relying on clean lines, as well as monochromatic white and black surfaces, Laura’s reduced visual idiom distills both its appearance and messaging down to the most basic of elements. Through their engagement with minimalism, Laura’s objects seek a clarity of thought and design that gesture toward a utopic state of intellect and form in service of aesthetic pleasure and conceptual rigor.
Similar to Sea Ranch’s goal of developing an environmentally conscious architecture, Modernist Utopia engages the natural world through the intentional construction of its objects. Namely, Laura developed many of the artworks featured in this exhibition using formal patterns that reference the natural world and its microscopic building blocks. In doing so, she has created a body of work that asks us to consider the relationship between art and the environment. What are their points of confluence? In what ways do they contradict one another? And, ultimately, how can we rethink these relationships in our pursuit of an ever-elusive utopia?
Whether or not one can achieve utopian states, though, is irrelevant. What is important to both Laura’s artwork and the Sea Ranch project are their ambitions to meld human artistry with the natural world in the hope of producing a dynamic synthesis.
Text by: Joshua Ware, Artist and Writer
About the Artist:
JESSIE LAURA (B. 1987, Lima, Peru) lives and works in San Francisco. She earned a BFA in Design and Film from The School of Visual Arts, New York (SVA NYC). Laura has been featured in notable group and solo exhibitions in the U.S. including New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco. Laura has completed artist residencies at Rule Gallery in Marfa, Texas and Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, Florida.
Laura’s Artwork has been featured in The Other Art Fair’s Fair Director’s Pick, (2023) and Apartment Therapy (2021). Laura’s work is held in private and corporate collections across the U.S. and U.K.
www.jessie-laura.com
@jessie.laura.artwork
