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Synesthesia and Art: Jessica Anne Schwartz Pushes the Envelope
Artists Magazine
September October 2023
by Ani Kodjabasheva
"Jessica Anne Schwartz experiences the world differently than most. The artist has a rare form of synesthesia, a condition in which stimulation of one of the senses automatically triggers sensations in another. For Schwartz, this phenomenon is constant and affects all of her senses. “Colors register a mouth-feel and a sound. Sound registers a visual. Smell is both sound and sight,” she says. “Even my emotions have sounds and visuals to them. All of my senses are cross-wired.”"
-- Ani Kodjabasheva
Artists Magazine
September October 2023
by Ani Kodjabasheva
“Jessica Anne Schwartz turns synesthesia into artfeaturing complex storytelling and bursts of color—with each piece off ering a clue to reading another.”
-- Ani Kodjabasheva
The Paris Review
June 2018
by Lawrence Weschler
"I was paying a visit to the studio of Jessica Anne Schwartz, a promising young San Francisco artist recently transplanted to New York, and over in the corner, on the floor, off to the side—she hadn’t particularly been intending to show them to me—she had ranged a series of small painted studies on board from several months back...."
-- Lawrence Weschler
Photograph courtesy of Constance Brukin.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
April 2018
James Watson’s 90th Birthday
This spring, James Watson, the "Father of DNA", celebrated his 90th year. I was honored to present him with Helix the Bird, an ink and gouache drawing on paper.
Sober Up Tour
AJR
January 2018
I love collaborating, so this was very special for me. Creating the design for the "Sober Up” tour shirt with AJR was a pleasure.
20th Annual Postcards from the Edge
Presented by Visual AIDS
January 19-21, 2018
Gallery 524
524 W. 24th St
New York, NY 10001
"In the Studio With Jessica Anne Schwartz"
September 2017
Essay by Laura Grasso
“The elements that make up her work are her spiritual essence, made real by oil and gouache and wire and resin.”
—Laura Grasso
Open Studio
May 19th from 4-9pm and May 20th from 1-6pm
526 West 26th Street, #623, New York, NY 10001
Please join me for my open studio and come see my world. Showing paintings of "Lemons from David the Giant" and select work from continuing and past series.
"Inside the Minimalist Healdsburg Home of Designer Colin Bury"
November/December 2016
San Francisco Cottages & Gardens
“The sunlit guest bedroom showcases art by Jessica Anne Schwartz.”
read "Jessica Anne Schwartz: Instinctive Formalist
"Jessica Anne Schwartz: Instinctive Formalist"
January 2016
Sensitive Skin Magazine
“She is that rarest of artists: a true original who is stubbornly willing to risk all to follow the instincts of her hand and imagination, intuit and pursue developments as they materialize within the painting and assert an instinctive sense of formal rightness that cannot be learned, only absorbed, through long, arduous hours of hard work.”
—Alan Kaufman
"Jessica Anne Schwartz"
March 2015
Sentience Art Gallery
“She is inspired by the voice, gesture, and story of things found in her everyday experience. Creating art is her way of listening, seeing, and speaking all at once, producing work that is an homage to otherwise invisible parts of life.”
—Ann Robin