Jessica McCormick

Artist Statement

My process works as a way to find personal alignment in a helter-skelter world. Even when everything seems turbulent, I turn to the canvas to re-exert some control over my own life.

In my two-dimensional work, I will pair acrylic and tape to create crisp, perfect lines. Sometimes, I'll also focus on a subtly detailed background that allows me to dig deep into the process and find my peace there, through gestural repetition one layer at a time. I take the chaos of the world around me, channel it, and transform it into something intentional, meticulous, and balanced.

Beyond my own internal motivations for creating a very particular type of art, I aim to give audiences a focal point to explore their own sense of what balance can look like. Various combinations of colors will interplay with each other, highlighting their different weights and impacts. Some work may be dynamic in its shapes and colors, while others will be more steady and serene.

Overall, my intention is to create pieces of art that are impossible to look away from -- they are active, textural, and almost alive.

Biography

Jessica McCormick has a style that is balanced and meditative. Her works are purely abstract, a creative avenue to study the effects of line, color, and weight within a composition.

Jessica uses acrylic to create lines and angles that work to exert control and create visual balance in her two-dimensional works. Meanwhile, her three-dimensional mixed-media pieces abandon the rigidity of straight lines and instead focus on color as the driving force. However, every piece she creates is both bold and meditative in the process and in its final result.

Jessica's works were recently seen at the 2022 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts within the Emerging Artists program. In addition, she has won an Honorable Mention and the Tim Salen Award for Art in Any Medium from the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, as well as a recent Best In Show at the Stirling Art Studios & Gallery in Dunedin.

She was born in Connecticut and has lived in various parts of Florida for most of her life. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Stetson University. Jessica currently lives with her husband in Tampa, Florida.

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