Jessica Dunne at Vedder Price
Jessica Dunne at Vedder Price
Exhibition: November 1, 2021 -February 28, 2022
Vedder Price 275 Battery St., San Francisco CA open by appointment only email: arcgallerysf@gmail.com
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Jessica Dunne
I live and paint in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District, where the city dead-ends at the Pacific Ocean. The architecture of the low houses is so similar as to suggest assembly-line production, and it is--or was-- foggy and cold almost year-round. I respond to my immediate surroundings in my work but, when I moved to the Outer Sunset in the 1980s, at first I saw nothing of aesthetic interest. Finally, after years of looking and painting and watching the evolution of the neighborhood, my relationship to its grid of streets and avenues has deepened such that I find it beautiful. I look back on my work and see an evolving story of changes in the Outer Sunset. I see the ubiquitous utility poles and network of cables as compositional elements, as well as a tangible web of connection between neighbors. The city planners are steadily upgrading infrastructure and burying power lines so the poles and wires are being cleared from the sky. Their absence is observable change--but what is the felt change? When the streetlights went from mercury vapor lights to sodium vapor, my palette felt the change--from green light to orange—before I noticed it myself. Here are the new white LED lamps that will once again send me reaching for previously unused paint colors. By painting what I see, I make discoveries. By paying attention to the details that record shifts in light, structures, and moods, I want to impart the sense of being located and included in a way that leaves an afterimage in the mind’s eye.
website: www.jessicadunne.com email: info@jessicadunne.com
Fenced In oil on polyester 46" x 76” $10,000 NW Conference Room
Turning monotype 35” x 41” $6,000 Outside NW Conference Room
Doc and Grant oil on canvas 40” x 65” $8,000 NW Hallway
Joy in Repetition oil on polyester 48” x 69” $12,000 Lobby
Sea of Stucco oil on polyester 48” x 76” $12,000 Lobby
Million Dollar Babies oil on linen 40” x 60” $10,000 Main Conference Room
Doggtown West oil on polyester 41” x 51” $6,000 Small Conference Room
Lizard Bowl 1 monotype image size 16” x 19”; framed size 29” x 31” $4,500 Office
Beach Balls spit-bite aquatint with drypoint image size 18” x 24”; framed size 28” x 33” $3,000 4/40 Outside Main Conference Room
Blue Hour oil on linen 63” x 77” $13,000 Main Hallway
Tangled Trees monotype 24” x 25” $3,000 Outside Wellness Room
Schoolyard oil on polyester 42” x 40” $5,000 Outside Wellness Room
Expanding Crosswalk oil on polyester 45” x 60” $8,000 Wellness Room
“Bay Bridge” - Counterpoint Studios San Francisco accounting offices
Ken Sloan San Francisco law firm lobby
installation - The Infinity San Francisco high rise lobby
installation design with art and books private collection
“Zoot Suit Woman” - Ester Hernandez and other “pillars” - private collection
4th Annual “48 Pillars” exhibition at Arc Gallery
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