Jessica Anne Schwartz
b.1972 lives and works in New York and Paris
phone: +1.415.264.3033
email: jessicakaboom@gmail.com
Website jessicaanneschwartz.com
Film 2022 Jessica Anne Schwartz: Population
Artist in Residence
2017-22 Silver Tip Ranch, Yellowstone Park, MT
2020 Whitewood, The Plains, VA
Site Specific Work
2017 - present Horsefeathers, Silver Tip Ranch, Yellowstone Park, MT. Site specific assemblage of spent horseshoes from ninety years of the historic Silvertip Ranch, arranged in a meadow to reflect the surrounding landscape.
2018 - present Shed, Silver Tip Ranch, Yellowstone Park, MT. Site specific assemblage of interlocking antlers from a “shed” pile of ninety years found on the historic Silvertip Ranch.
2021 Stage Coach Obscura in collaboration with artist Tristan Duke, Silver Tip Ranch Yellowstone Park, MT. Site specific installation of a working Camera Obscura created from an abandoned stagecoach with a lens sourced from local creek water.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Horsefeathers, Silver Tip Ranch, Yellowstone Park, MT
2018 Shed, Silver Tip Ranch, Yellowstone Park, MT
2016 Paintings from a Place Called Mathilda, Ridgefield, CT
2015 Sentience Art Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2013 Mural, Bluestem Brasserie, San Francisco, CA
2013 Storm, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art, Barre, VT
2023 Ortuzar Projects, New York, NY
2023 Pier 27, San Francisco, CA
2021 Sotheby’s, New York, NY
2020 Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY
2019. Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY
2019 Children’s Museum, New York, NY
2018 Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Oyster Bay, NY
2018 Visual Aid, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY
2018. Turn This Crazy Bird Around, New York, NY
2017. Visual Aid, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY
2017 Access Institute, Spectrum Gala, San Francisco, CA
2016 Visual Aid, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY
2016 DIFFA, NWBLK Gallery San Francisco, CA
2015 Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery New York, NY
2015 Artists Teaching Art, Sausalito Arts Festival Sausalito, CA
2015 Studio 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 DIFFA NWBLK Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 DIFFA NWBLK Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Studio 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Access Institute, Spectrum Gala, San Francisco, CA
2013 Access Institute, Spectrum Gala, San Francisco, CA
2012 The Four Seasons, Ronald MacDonald House Gala, San Francisco, CA
2012 Access Institute, Spectrum Gala, San Francisco, CA
2012 Michelle O'Conner Gallery San Francisco, CA
2012 Michelle O'Conner Gallery San Francisco, CA
2012 Chronicle Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Bay Area Artists for Japan Mina Dresden Gallery San Francisco, CA
2010 Bay Area Artists Fredericks San Francisco, CA
2010 Michelle O'Conner Gallery San Francisco, CA
2010 South of Market Artists' Gallery San Francisco, CA
2010 SpARC Gallery San Francisco, CA
2010 George Lawson Gallery San Francisco, CA
2009 South of Market Artists San Francisco, CA
Selected Press/Publications
2022. London Art Roundup “Why I Like It: Lay Down Dream, Jessica Anne Schwartz” Darren Prouty
2018 The Paris Review “The Art of Spooning” Lawrence Weschler,
2016 San Francisco Cottages and Garden “Inside the Minimalist Healdsburg Home of Designer Collin Burry” Linda O’Keeffe
2016 Jessica Anne Schwartz: Instinctive Formalist, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Alan Kaufman
2013 The Bay Area Reporter “Out There”, Roberto Friedman,
Salons
2022 On Deep Beauty in discussion with Barnaby Marsh, Louis, Schwartzberg, Lawrence Weschler, George Dawes Green, Barnaby Marsh, Shilesh Iyar
2019 S&S Salon Half Hour Film Festival Screening The Acolyte by Sammy James, JR Lonely Hearts by Dennis Cahlo & Bethany Watson followed by Joshua Handler in conversation with filmmakers and The Writers Room
2018 Handler Film Salon moderated with Joshua Handler
Professor Marston & The Wonder Woman Movie with guest Angela Robinson
Mistress America
Seven Beauties with guest Jennifer Fox
Cameraperson with guest Kirsten Johnson
Grease with guest Patricia Birch
Indignation with guest James Schamus
Departure with guest Lana Wilson
Joe Versus the Volcano with John Patrick Shanley
The Pain of Others with guest Penny Lane
Play It As It Lays with guests Frank Perry & Tom Folino
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead with guests Kelly Masterson
Gloria
NUTS with guest Penny Lane
Lady MacBeth
Our Little Sister
2016 Memoir and the Novel Workshops with author Alan Kaufman (twelve salon style workshops)
Social Practice
2015 – present Paintings on Envelopes
Paintings on Envelopes for the IRS, NY State Taxes, Art Studio and Apartment New York, NY. I paint the envelopes I send my payment dues for the people on the other end to enjoy. I include personal letters and a self-addressed envelope. I have received letters back.
2015 – present Joan’s Plant Orphanage New York, NY A community place I created on the 6th floor of 526 W26th Street for people to sit and meet and connect. It is dedicated to my friend Joan and home to abandoned plants I have rescued from dumpsters and curbs.
2015 Fishing for Friends When I first moved from San Francisco to New York I went "fishing for friends" from the window of my new studio in Chelsea. I painted a bird on a sheet of music attached it to a chocolate bar and lowered it down by a line to the open window below. Soon the bait was takenand we engaged in exchanging gifts between floors.
2000 -- 2014 Miwok Village Community Garden Oakland, CA Founded and established a community garden in my front yard for people living in my neighborhood. It brought neighbors together and served as a home for small community events.
2000 – present Mentoring Mentoring new and continuing artists San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY. I have enjoyed mentoring beginning and continuing artists for over twenty years. I mentor a large range of levels and ages. Mentoring is very enriching to my practice and my way of life.