About
Jessica Brackett is a Chicago-based artist with ties in LA, Portland, and London. She works in sculpture, painting, and installation. Through her work, she seeks to falsify the familiar and elevate the mundane. Working in still life, she uses plants, insects, and water as metaphor for the human condition. She received her BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings can be seen throughout the US, and Asia, as well as featured 3 years in a row on Emmy-Winning hit television series Portlandia.
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Jessica Lynn Brackett, (b. 1988, US) | jessicalynnbrackett@gmail.com | jessicabrackett.com
2011 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting and Art History
2019-2020 Artist in Residence, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, Ill
2018-2019 Poet in Residence, Wndr Museum, Chicago, Ill.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 I Love You to Death, Agitator Gallery, Chiciago, Ill.
2017 Plants of the NW, Zuzu, Portland, Or.
2016 Oregon Rains, Collective Agency (March-May), Crema (June), Portland, Or.
2015 Botanicals: Real and Imagined, St. John’s Booksellers, Portland, Or.
2015 You are What You Eat, Toast, Portland, Or.
2014 Getting to the Roots of a Botanical Mystery, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting and Art History
2019-2020 Artist in Residence, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, Ill
2018-2019 Poet in Residence, Wndr Museum, Chicago, Ill.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 I Love You to Death, Agitator Gallery, Chiciago, Ill.
2017 Plants of the NW, Zuzu, Portland, Or.
2016 Oregon Rains, Collective Agency (March-May), Crema (June), Portland, Or.
2015 Botanicals: Real and Imagined, St. John’s Booksellers, Portland, Or.
2015 You are What You Eat, Toast, Portland, Or.
2014 Getting to the Roots of a Botanical Mystery, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Botanicals, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Hard to Kill, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Pollinators, Ryerson Woods, Rivers, Illinois
2019 Candyland, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Fun Gallery 2, ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach, Cali. Curated by famed Pattie Astor.
2018 Hungry, ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach, Cali.
2017 Guilty Pleasures, Splendorporium, Portland, Or.
2017 October Display, Bare Bones Cafe, Portland Or.
2017 Dessert Display, Vancouver Courthouse, Vancouver, Wa.
2017 Let Them Eat Fake! Bad Art Presents: Bare Bones Studios, London, UK
2017 Hungry For Art, School Fundraiser, N.W.I.P.A, Portland, Or.
2017 A Spotlight on Emerging Portland Artists, The Hairy Lobster, Portland, Or.
2016 The Recycled Rain Project, The Ford Gallery, Portland, Or.
2015 Mechanical, PDX Magazine, Portland, Or.
2014 Thinking Outside the Chip, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2013 The Monument of the 7th Dimension, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2012 The Faux Masters, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2011 An Ephemeral Journey, Primary Colors Gallery, Independence, Mo.
2010 Of the Air, Metropolitan Community College, Longview, Mo.
Bibliography
Chapman, Catherine: "An Eerie Exhibition in London Serves Up a Smorgasbord of Fake Food", https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/8xn4yk/eerie-exhibition-smorgasbord-fake-food?utm_source=tcpfbus
Williams, Meryl: The Sleeper Hit Podcast, http://sleeperhitpod.libsyn.com/podcast/19-jessica-brackett-diary-by-chuck-palahniuk
Locke, Mary: “New Botanical Mystery on Display at Faux Museum”, pdxmag.com, November 19, 2014. http://pdxmag.com/archives/3643
Palahniuk, Chuck; Stewart, Cameron: “Fight Club 2, Issue 2”, July 22, 2015. A centerpiece doughnut I decorated for artist Cameron Stewart was published in the comic. Painted a portrait of a character in frosting.
"Portlandia", Season 8, Episodes 1, 2, 8, and 10. 2018.
“Portlandia”, Season 7, Episodes 1, 3, 8, and 10. 2017.
“Portlandia”, Season 6, Episodes 5, 6, and 8”, 2016.
Voodoo Doughnut, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Pollinators, Ryerson Woods, Rivers, Illinois
2019 Candyland, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Fun Gallery 2, ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach, Cali. Curated by famed Pattie Astor.
2018 Hungry, ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach, Cali.
2017 Guilty Pleasures, Splendorporium, Portland, Or.
2017 October Display, Bare Bones Cafe, Portland Or.
2017 Dessert Display, Vancouver Courthouse, Vancouver, Wa.
2017 Let Them Eat Fake! Bad Art Presents: Bare Bones Studios, London, UK
2017 Hungry For Art, School Fundraiser, N.W.I.P.A, Portland, Or.
2017 A Spotlight on Emerging Portland Artists, The Hairy Lobster, Portland, Or.
2016 The Recycled Rain Project, The Ford Gallery, Portland, Or.
2015 Mechanical, PDX Magazine, Portland, Or.
2014 Thinking Outside the Chip, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2013 The Monument of the 7th Dimension, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2012 The Faux Masters, The Faux Museum, Portland, Or.
2011 An Ephemeral Journey, Primary Colors Gallery, Independence, Mo.
2010 Of the Air, Metropolitan Community College, Longview, Mo.
Bibliography
Chapman, Catherine: "An Eerie Exhibition in London Serves Up a Smorgasbord of Fake Food", https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/8xn4yk/eerie-exhibition-smorgasbord-fake-food?utm_source=tcpfbus
Williams, Meryl: The Sleeper Hit Podcast, http://sleeperhitpod.libsyn.com/podcast/19-jessica-brackett-diary-by-chuck-palahniuk
Locke, Mary: “New Botanical Mystery on Display at Faux Museum”, pdxmag.com, November 19, 2014. http://pdxmag.com/archives/3643
Palahniuk, Chuck; Stewart, Cameron: “Fight Club 2, Issue 2”, July 22, 2015. A centerpiece doughnut I decorated for artist Cameron Stewart was published in the comic. Painted a portrait of a character in frosting.
"Portlandia", Season 8, Episodes 1, 2, 8, and 10. 2018.
“Portlandia”, Season 7, Episodes 1, 3, 8, and 10. 2017.
“Portlandia”, Season 6, Episodes 5, 6, and 8”, 2016.
Voodoo Doughnut, Taipei, Taiwan