Jessie Homer French
Jessie Homer French was born in New York in 1940. She currently lives and works in Oak View, California.
A self-taught artist, her paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist’s personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Through a simplified language - only apparently naive, flat colours and calm brushstrokes - Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death, nature and rural life. In her work, humanity appears a toxic intruder in a melancholic nature, and yet, even the paintings with the darkest subjects feature a formal vitality capable of giving extraordinary immediacy to her bittersweet and anti-pastoral compositions, in which creation and destruction coexist with exemplary candour.
Homer French’s work is included in the collections of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Artworks
Exhibitions
Museums
Biography
Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
USA, Normal Landscapes, VSF, Los Angeles
N, Jessie Homer French, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2023
I, Memento Mori, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2022
USA, Roots, Various Small Fires, Dallas
2021
UK, West Coast, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2020
USA, Jessie Homer French, Independent New York, New York
USA, Chernobyl, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
2019
IRL, Paintings 1978-2018, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
UK, Stealth Bomber/s, Mother’s Tankstation, London
2018
HK, American Pastoral, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
USA, Mapestries, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
USA, Food Chain, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
2016
USA, Two Degrees Celsius?, Gallery 169, Santa Monica
USA, Mapestries, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2012
USA, Mapestries, Katherine Cone Gallery, Los Angeles
2009
CDN, New Paintings, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2006
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2004
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2001
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
1999
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
1989
USA, Jessie Homer French, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1984
USA, Jessie Homer French, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1976
USA, Jessie Homer French, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
F, The Atomic Age, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
USA, Spin a Yarn, curated by Curated by Estrellita Brodsky, ANOTHER SPACE, New York
2023
USA, If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change Curated by Jeff Goodell, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
PRC, Thread Routes, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
USA, Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2022
I, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
I, The Milk of Dreams, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia
PRC, The First Beijing Biennial 展览名称: 第一届北京艺术双年展, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing
2021
USA, The Interior, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
2020
USA, Life Still, CLEARING, New York
USA, Materia Medica, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
ROK, Next of Kin, Various Small Fires, Seoul
2018
USA, Eighty at Eighty: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
2017
USA, Hecate, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
2015
USA, Small House, Craig Krull Gallery, Palm Springs
2014
USA, Joan Joan Joan! One Subject, Many Artists, John Wayne Airport Arts Program, Santa Ana
CDN, 20/20: A Celebratory Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2012
CDN, Points of View, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2011
USA, Mysterious Objects – Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana
2009
USA, Winter Watercolorland, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica
2008
USA, Love to Party, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica
2007
CDN, Hornby Three, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2005
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Mantra Design, Victoria
2003
USA, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
2001
USA, Jessie Homer French, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
USA, Eye Candy, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
2000
CDN, Jessie Homer French, Victoria International Airport, Victoria
1998
USA, Disparate Landscapes, Gensler, Los Angeles
1997
USA, Jessie Homer French, Westfall Art Gallery, Venice
USA, All Blue Almost Curated by Billy Al Bengston, Gensler Gallery, Newport Beach
1996
USA, Jessie Homer French, Westfall Art Gallery, Venice
1994
USA, Naturescapes, Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles
Bibliography
Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2024
Jessie Homer French. Fire, Fish and Death, Exhibition Catalogue.
2020
The Company
Whitewall Online, March 4
Artnet News, March 5
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2019
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2017
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Osberg, Annabel, Artillery Magazine, May 24
2016
Gelt, Jessica, Los Angeles Times, January 21
2011
Victoria Boulevard, July
2006
Grison, Brian, Focus, July
2004
Amos, Robert, Victoria Times Colonist, July 22
2002
The Gig, January
2001
Amos, Robert, Victoria Times Colonist, June 4
, Islander, Victoria Times Colonist, March 18
1999
Lennam, David, Oak Bay News, September 10
1996
Culture Zone, June
1993
Country Living, May
House And Garden, February
1988
Architectural Digest, June
1985
Goodlife Magazine, January
1984
Muchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times
1976
Seldis, Henry, Los Angeles Times, May 28
Public collections
Country
Location
United States of America
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.