04 Feb 2010 | no comments »
16×20″ Graphite and color pencil on board
♦Going to be at The Hive Gallery & Studios’ “Alice in Wonderland” group show, March 2010.
Notes:
Caterpillars are eating machines. Binge eating is a pattern of disordered eating which consists of episodes of uncontrollable eating. Right from birth the caterpillar seeks out food and feeds for a large part of their lives. In parallel, Binge eaters eat rapidly and until they are uncomfortably full. Large amounts of food are consumed by both the caterpillar and binger, even when not physically hungry. Bingers eat alone out of embarrassment at the quantity of food being eaten, caterpillars often eat at night to avoid detection form predators.
03 Feb 2010 | no comments »
9×7″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
This piece is about a Symbiotic relationship. A long term interaction between different biological species a cat and a human. I wanted to convey a maternal and intimate feel to it.
15 Jan 2010 | 4 comments »
16×20″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess of all disordered eating.
15 Jan 2010 | no comments »
10×10″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess Anorexia Nervosa.
15 Jan 2010 | no comments »
9×14″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess of Bulimia Nervosa.
15 Jan 2010 | no comments »
11×14″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
15 Jan 2010 | no comments »
9×12″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess of Binge Eating Disorder.
15 Jan 2010 | no comments »
6×8″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on board
Custom framed, created by Rick Hilgner, Apricot Mantle and Jessica Ward
♦Featured on the “Small Wall” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Notes:
This series of drawings are depictions of eating disorders as Goddesses, this one is the Goddess of Compulsive Overeating.
30 Nov 2009 | no comments »
Collaboration with Apricot Mantle. My half on the left, graphite, color pencil and acrylic. His half on the right, color pencil. Custom toy adorned with Swarovski crystals and gold leaf.
♦Shown in “Price-Less/King Bee Toy” at The Hive Gallery & Studios Los Angeles CA, December 2009
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
26 Oct 2009 | 1 comment »
Graphite pencil & water color on a porcelain skull made by Gregg Stone
♦Shown in “Top of the Dome VI” Los Angeles CA, November 2009
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
11 Oct 2009 | no comments »
6×8″ Graphite & color pencil on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
For a contest held by Arc Light Theater of Hollywood “Where the Wild things are” Click here!
18 Sep 2009 | 1 comment »
8×10″ Graphite and color pencil on paper
♦Going to be shown in “Everything but the Kitsch N’ Sync” at La Luz de Jesus Gallery Hollywood CA, March 2010
Notes:
“Cattus Praecipio of Nex” is Latin for the cat warns of death. The cats in my drawings usually represent a protector or witness. However when in skeleton form they serve as a memento mori. Reminding one of their own mortality. Many women come very close to death while suffering from Anorexia.
Buy a Print!
18 Sep 2009 | no comments »
11×14 Graphite and color pencil on paper
♦In the collection of Joe Almeida Studio City, CA
♦Shown in “Tarot Hive″ themed group show at The Hive Gallery & Studios in Los Angeles, CA October 2009.
Buy a Print!
15 Sep 2009 | no comments »
5×5″
graphite and color pencil on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
last one of the small pink series. Force Fed is about the struggle with feelings of guilt, disgust, and depression from binge eating. The desparation to stop, but feeling like you can’t.
Buy a Print!
28 Aug 2009 | no comments »
5×5″ Graphite and color pencil on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
The neck separates the head (cognition) from the body (drives and needs) long neck is desire for more separation.
Buy a Print!
26 Aug 2009 | no comments »
5×7″ Graphite on paper
♦Featured on the Girls Drawing Girls online gallery 2009
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
It’s never good enough.
Buy a Print!
21 Aug 2009 | 1 comment »
8×10″ Grpahite on paper
♦Going to be shown in “Everything but the Kitsch N’ Sync” at La Luz de Jesus Gallery Hollywood CA, March 2010
Notes:
When the Mirror Lies.
Buy a Print!
21 Aug 2009 | no comments »
4×6″ Grpahite and color pencil on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
This piece is about cronic back pain.
Buy a Print!
18 Aug 2009 | no comments »
5×7″
Graphite & mixed on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
In a Freudian view, regressive behaviors, like an
oral fixation, can lead to increase over-eating, being overly talkative, smoking addictions and alcoholism.
Buy a Print!
04 Aug 2009 | 1 comment »
4×6″ Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Buy a Print!
30 Jul 2009 | no comments »
5×5″
Graphite & mixed on paper
Model: Llana Barron
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
Obsession with an empty stomach.
Buy a Print!
15 Jul 2009 | no comments »
4×6″
Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
Preoccupation with one’s own body.
Buy a Print!
15 Jul 2009 | no comments »
5×7″
Graphite & mixed media on embossed paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Buy a Print!
13 Jul 2009 | no comments »
5×7″
Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
Inspired by the HTP test used in child psychology.
Buy a Print!
13 Jul 2009 | no comments »
6×8″
Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Buy a Print!
29 Jun 2009 | no comments »
8×8″
Graphite & mixed media on paper
Framed
♦Shown in “Bee-rotica 2″ themed group show at The Hive Gallery & Studios in Los Angeles July 2009.
♦Published in the book “Max and the Siamese Twins” by Max Stout 2009
♦Shown in the “Feminality Art Show” at Art Basel Miami, Florida December 2009
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Buy a Print!
25 Jun 2009 | no comments »
5×7″
Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as though they might teach us how not to need.” – Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 1998
Buy a Print!
25 Jun 2009 | no comments »
5×7″ Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦In the collection of Liliana Feliciano Silver Lake, CA
♦Displayed in the group show at the Hive Gallery & Studios in Los Angeles, CA August 2009
Notes:
Regressive fantasies. Regression is a form of retreat, going back to a time when the person felt safer and where the stresses in question were not known, or where an all-powerful parent would take them away.
Buy a Print!
25 Jun 2009 | no comments »
5×5″ Graphite & mixed media on paper
♦Displayed in the group show at The Hive Gallery & Studios in Los Angeles, CA September 2009
♦The original piece is available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Notes:
The apple is a very rich symbol with ties to temptation, immortality and youth. In this picture however the apple is represented as a core. The forbidden fruit has been eaten, representing an unnatural relationship with food and health.
Buy a Print!
“The Bully” 12×12″
Graphite on embossed paper
“Holes” 12×12″
Graphite on embossed paper
25 Jun 2009 | no comments »
Collection of 4×6″ drawings done in graphite or ink on paper 2005-2006
From left to right:
“Monster” “Wishes” “I’m only seven” “Weighing” “Scale” “Watcher” “Twisted” “Thinking of you” “Voices” “Worm”
♦All of these original pieces are available to be purchased, please contact me for pricing.
Buy a Print!
“The Contortionist”
“The Escape Artist”
“The Sword Eater”
“The Fat Lady”
“The Human Skeleton”
“The Siamese Twins”
16 May 2009 | no comments »
“Spiral of Rituals” Senior Thesis
Installation of free standing cut-outs, life size graphite drawings on paper 2005
Artist Statement for “Spiral of Rituals” Installation 2005
This body of work is a series of life-sized drawings. They are done on paper with graphite pencils, which are then turned into cutouts that are freestanding from the wall. The subjects are mannequin like, abject women who are drawn as if they are monsters or freaks being displayed on a stage or in a circus sideshow. There is a voyeuristic element to the work because they are torturing themselves on display and we are allowed to watch. The figures are watching the viewers watch them and therefore are in control of the situations they have placed themselves in. At the same time there are no sexual organs on the female creatures and there are allusions to self-inflicted eating disorders as well. These are two different ideas merged together to address the issue of often hidden neuroses.
Distorted and contorted bodies are an important part of my work. They represent the internal struggle that is twisting and pulling in impossible directions. The drawings are a way of visually representing the sense of an uncomfortable and disturbing presence. Eating disorders and the women who house them are similar to how the world perceives and often times idolizes freaks. We are surrounded by images everywhere of idealized females totally devoid of any humanity, and they are fetishized. I place symbols in my drawings that embellish these themes of fetishes with eating and the body, like hair. Obsession surrounds the simple task of eating, how much is eaten, digestion, and how the intake is purged. The purging process becomes a fascination with many gratifications.
My work deals with the abject body, female figures that are grotesque or incomplete. My skills with the pencil draw the viewer in through technical virtuosity. I seduce the viewer to examine the work, and upon further inspection they realize that they are looking at something disturbing. I hope to evoke a negative aesthetic response from people. To achieve this goal I render images that create connection and rejection, repulsion and attraction.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home1/apricotm/public_html/jessicawardart/wp-includes/formatting.php(164) : runtime-created function on line 1
