Exhibitions
...NO FOOTPRINTS, EVEN. MULTI-MEDIA WORKS BY JESSICA HOUSTON
Vanderbilt University Museum of Art / 1220 21st Ave S. January 30 - May 11th
Jessica Houston
Montréal artist Jessica Houston journeys from pole to pole through oral narratives, photography, collage, and painting to explore climate justice, particularly emphasizing the deep time of ice and collaboration with nature. Through her research-based practice, Houston engages with poets, penguins, scientists, and philosophers to uncover and illuminate the geographies of resistance.
Jessica Houston will be having a collage-making session and walk-through with Jana Harper as part of her campus visit in conjunction with her first solo exhibition in the Southern U.S. at Vanderbilt University Museum of Art. Houston’s hybrid practice spans photography, oral histories, painting and video to explore climate change in the polar regions.
On Tuesday, February 18, Houston leads a hands-on collage making session in the galleries at 1pm followed by an exhibition walk-through with curator Jana Harper, a professor of the practice in Vanderbilt department of art.
Image: Jessica Houston “When I was little more than a child my imagination was caught by a newspaper account of the voyage of the Belgica…”, Oil on wood panel, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Art Mûr Gallery.
