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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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With an Eye of Faith (Elephant Island, Antarctica)
Jessica Houston
Photography - 22 x 33 inch
$3,388
They surveyed the mountain peak as a philosophical
Jessica Houston
Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch
$1,581
Action which enables us to project our forces into the outside world
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch
$1,468
Of a difference in which the differences are inseparable
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch
$1,468
Of the return voyage there is nothing to tell… In 1912 all the world learned that the brave Norwegian Amundsen had reached the South Pole; and then, much later, came the accounts of how Captain Scott and his men had come there after him
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
We were sledgehaulers at least as good as Captain Scott’s husky dogs
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
She dug out one more cell just under the ice surface, leaving nearly a transparent sheet of ice like a greenhouse roof; and there, alone, she worked at sculptures … But she could not bring them north. That is the penalty for carving in water
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
The steam from our own small funnel faded blue on the twilit water as we crept along under the towering pale wall of ice.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
..…instead of a narrow bight there was a considerable bay, full of the beautiful and terrific orca whales playing and spouting in the sunshine of that brilliant southern spring.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
…we came in sight of the Barrier at the place where Captain Scott’s party … had gone ashore and sent up their hydrogen-gas balloon for reconnaissance and photography
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
The little Yelcho steamed cheerily along through gale and gleam, climbing up and down those seas of the Southern Ocean that ran unbroken round the world..
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
When I was little more than a child my imagination was caught by a newspaper account of the voyage of the Belgica…
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
…last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlands that may or may not be there: Antarctica
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
That evening, in the long orange twilight of October, we saw the topmast of the Yelcho go down the north horizon, over the edge of the world, leaving us to ice, and silence, and the Pole.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,033
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