About Jessica Ward
Jessica Ward is a contemporary figurative pop surrealist artist who began exhibiting her works in 2008. Born in Agana, Guam in 1982, she moved and traveled around the world because her father was an Air Force officer. As a child Ward could always be found sketching and drawing and aspired to become a professional artist when she grew up. She attended Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art-Drawing with a minor in Illustration. Ward’s art work is inspired by eating disorders, which she herself has struggled with with since adolescence. She uses graphite, color pencil, chalk pastel and water color on paper or board.
Jessica currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her husband Apricot Mantle. She had her first gallery show in 2008, and has been exhibiting her work internationally since.
“Guam-born artist, Jessica Ward, is not about to glamorize being a teenage girl with lip gloss and mini-skirts. Her vivid graphite and color drawings of female figures with detached limbs and incomplete bodies are a visual reminder that hidden neuroses can pop up in the prettiest of places. Exposing the paranoia of eating disorders and teens, Ward’s subjects become more monster than teen and illustrate a storybook of inner delusions where hair is a girl’s worst enemy and cats become accepting protectors and symbols of escape.” – Content © L’etoile Magazine 2009
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