Jessica Houston

United States  • 1970

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Jessica Houston has an MA from Columbia University. She was an invited artist aboard an Arctic voyage sponsored by Cape Farewell. She has created site-specific works for the New Jersey MOCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey; the Castello di Corigliano, Puglia, Italy; Governors Island, NY, NY and The Albany Airport, Albany, NY.

Select exhibitions & projects include: The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls (NY), The Latimer House Museum, New York (NY), Art in Odd Places, New York (NY), International Polar Year Conference, Oslo (NO), The Painting Center, New York (NY), Printed Matter, New York (NY), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MI), Arts House, Melbourne (AU) and Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Florence (IT). She has been awarded residencies at The Albers Foundation in Bethany (CT), NES in Skagaströnd (IS), at the CAMAC Centre of Art, Science and Technology in France, and with Rosenclaire in Italy. She was nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Grant. She teaches at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has lectured at Columbia University, Concordia University, OCAD University, and The Art Institute of Florence, Italy.

Her works are funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and are in the collections of the Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, the Collection Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montreal (QC), the Bank of Montreal, Toronto and the Consulate General of Monaco, Montreal.

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Painting, But then, the backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that …But the achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul., Jessica Houston

But then, the backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that …But the achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

$2,009

Painting, The necessity of refusal, Jessica Houston

The necessity of refusal

Jessica Houston

Painting - 12.7 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 5 x 7 x 2 inch

$893

Photography, The long haul, Jessica Houston

The long haul

Jessica Houston

Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,121

Photography, Mean Weather, Jessica Houston

Mean Weather

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, Crossing The Line, Jessica Houston

Crossing The Line

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, The Greening, Jessica Houston

The Greening

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, Living Memory, Jessica Houston

Living Memory

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, The Left Hand Points Toward Home, Jessica Houston

The Left Hand Points Toward Home

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, Capacity to Self-Organize (Thuli site, Arctic), Jessica Houston

Capacity to Self-Organize (Thuli site, Arctic)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Photography, Enduring Claims (Antarctica), Jessica Houston

Enduring Claims (Antarctica)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,349

Print, The Spaces We Breathe, Jessica Houston

The Spaces We Breathe

Jessica Houston

Print - 53.5 x 76 x 0.4 cm Print - 21.1 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch

$3,349

Print, White Horizon, Jessica Houston

White Horizon

Jessica Houston

Print - 53.5 x 76 x 0.4 cm Print - 21.1 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch

$3,349

Photography, A life attuned to larger rhythms, Jessica Houston

A life attuned to larger rhythms

Jessica Houston

Photography - 53.3 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 21 x 33 x 1 inch

$3,014

Photography, The forward march loses ground, Jessica Houston

The forward march loses ground

Jessica Houston

Photography - 53.3 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 21 x 33 x 1 inch

$3,014

Print, Set In Motion, Jessica Houston

Set In Motion

Jessica Houston

Print - 53.5 x 76 x 0.4 cm Print - 21.1 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch

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Painting, On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so., Jessica Houston

On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Painting, Until It Gives Way, Jessica Houston

Until It Gives Way

Jessica Houston

Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch

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Painting, Born of sight and memory, Jessica Houston

Born of sight and memory

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

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Painting, Temperance, Jessica Houston

Temperance

Jessica Houston

Painting - 12.7 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 5 x 7 x 2 inch

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Painting, All that week the blizzard wind pursued us like a pack of mad dogs... I wished we had not gone to the Pole. I think I wish it even now., Jessica Houston

All that week the blizzard wind pursued us like a pack of mad dogs... I wished we had not gone to the Pole. I think I wish it even now.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Painting, We were by then all a little crazy with exhaustion and the great altitude twelve thousand feet—and the cold and the wind blowing luminous circles and crosses surrounding the suns, for often there were three or four suns in the sky, up there…, Jessica Houston

We were by then all a little crazy with exhaustion and the great altitude twelve thousand feet—and the cold and the wind blowing luminous circles and crosses surrounding the suns, for often there were three or four suns in the sky, up there…

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Painting, We were in for one severe shock - Teresa was pregnant…on February 14th,  she went into labor. ‘I shall name her Rosa—Rosa del Sur,’ Rose of the South, Jessica Houston

We were in for one severe shock - Teresa was pregnant…on February 14th, she went into labor. ‘I shall name her Rosa—Rosa del Sur,’ Rose of the South

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Painting, Step by step we went…We were fifteen days on the glacier…at every day’s advance more great, nameless peaks came into view…We gave names to these peaks, not very seriously, since we did not expect our discoveries to come to the attention of geographers., Jessica Houston

Step by step we went…We were fifteen days on the glacier…at every day’s advance more great, nameless peaks came into view…We gave names to these peaks, not very seriously, since we did not expect our discoveries to come to the attention of geographers.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Painting, The Yelcho anchored and we went ashore in a ship’s boat., Jessica Houston

The Yelcho anchored and we went ashore in a ship’s boat.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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The artistic movements of the artists are: Swathes of Color

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The year of birth of the artist is: 1970