One of the most talented artists to come out of South Carolina in many years, Jessica Justus has been working in San Diego, California and Steamboat Springs, Colorado for several years now. Her art is heavily informed by her experiences in three such disparate environs, showing the bleak, insular feeling brought on by the cold of the Rocky Mountain winter, the warm, breezy, and vaguely plastic ease of life in Souther California, and her deeply religious and introspective roots in the Deep South. She primarily paints her ironic take on the female form, though her Colorado landscapes are some of the most profound and stark of the new millennium. Her use of earthy colors that contrast beautifully with her intensely textured backgrounds is earning her a reputation as one of the finest artists of her generation, especially among those who work primarily in oils.
Trees of Steamboat
Oil (2006)
