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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Print, Perceptible Changes Over Time, Jessica Houston

Perceptible Changes Over Time

Jessica Houston

Print - 22 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch

$2,000

Painting, To hang in between, Jessica Houston

To hang in between

Jessica Houston

Painting - 7 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,242

Photography, With an Eye of Faith (Elephant Island, Antarctica), Jessica Houston

With an Eye of Faith (Elephant Island, Antarctica)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,388

Sculpture, Rock Has No Tongue, Jessica Houston

Rock Has No Tongue

Jessica Houston

Sculpture - 39 x 15 x 11.5 inch

$6,400

Fine Art Drawings, The fatigue of the conquest, Jessica Houston

The fatigue of the conquest

Jessica Houston

Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Painting, Compass rose, Jessica Houston

Compass rose

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Photography, This Wayward Floating Body (Antarctica), Jessica Houston

This Wayward Floating Body (Antarctica)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,388

Photography, Many Kinds of Absence (Antarctica), Jessica Houston

Many Kinds of Absence (Antarctica)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 22 x 33 inch

$3,388

Print, This Mountain, Jessica Houston

This Mountain

Jessica Houston

Print - 21.1 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch

$3,388

Painting, If Held To The Light, Jessica Houston

If Held To The Light

Jessica Houston

Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch

$3,275

Painting, Leave It Be, Jessica Houston

Leave It Be

Jessica Houston

Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch

$3,275

Painting, Beyond Recall, Jessica Houston

Beyond Recall

Jessica Houston

Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch

$3,275

Photography, Ideas in Things (Antarctic Peninsula), Jessica Houston

Ideas in Things (Antarctic Peninsula)

Jessica Houston

Photography - 48 x 72 inch

$8,131

Painting, Beneath the Night, Jessica Houston

Beneath the Night

Jessica Houston

Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch

$6,400

Painting, Migration, Jessica Houston

Migration

Jessica Houston

Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch

$6,400

Painting, The Flaws That Cut Through, Jessica Houston

The Flaws That Cut Through

Jessica Houston

Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch

$6,400

Photography, The second flight, Jessica Houston

The second flight

Jessica Houston

Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, Into Mystery Land, Jessica Houston

Into Mystery Land

Jessica Houston

Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, Captain Cook’s legacy, Jessica Houston

Captain Cook’s legacy

Jessica Houston

Photography - 20 x 14 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Henson and Peary - Past entanglements, Jessica Houston

Henson and Peary - Past entanglements

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Ghost in the land, Jessica Houston

Ghost in the land

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Fine Art Drawings, Footprints, Jessica Houston

Footprints

Jessica Houston

Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, Launching Strategy, Jessica Houston

Launching Strategy

Jessica Houston

Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, They surveyed the mountain peak as a philosophical, Jessica Houston

They surveyed the mountain peak as a philosophical

Jessica Houston

Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, Aerial exploration, Jessica Houston

Aerial exploration

Jessica Houston

Photography - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Photography, The plume of nationalism, Jessica Houston

The plume of nationalism

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Undercurrents, Jessica Houston

Undercurrents

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Territory over land, Jessica Houston

Territory over land

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Geological markers, Jessica Houston

Geological markers

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, No such border, Jessica Houston

No such border

Jessica Houston

Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch

$2,146

Photography, Architecture of the anthropocene, Jessica Houston

Architecture of the anthropocene

Jessica Houston

Photography - 20 x 14 x 1 inch

$2,146

Painting, A balancing land, Jessica Houston

A balancing land

Jessica Houston

Painting - 12 x 9 x 3 inch

$2,033

Painting, There remains and irreducible parity, Jessica Houston

There remains and irreducible parity

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Inextricably Linked, Jessica Houston

Inextricably Linked

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Around us and within us, Jessica Houston

Around us and within us

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Holding up and attracting the earth, Jessica Houston

Holding up and attracting the earth

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Action which enables us to project our forces into the outside world, Jessica Houston

Action which enables us to project our forces into the outside world

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Between them, Jessica Houston

Between them

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Polar opposites and complementary relationships, Jessica Houston

Polar opposites and complementary relationships

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, The impossible abyss which separates the two sides, Jessica Houston

The impossible abyss which separates the two sides

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Of a difference in which the differences are inseparable, Jessica Houston

Of a difference in which the differences are inseparable

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Both above and below, Jessica Houston

Both above and below

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, Heart world, Jessica Houston

Heart world

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,468

Painting, The shadow economy of extraction, Jessica Houston

The shadow economy of extraction

Jessica Houston

Painting - 7 x 9 x 3 inch

$1,242

Painting, The sky was a doorway, Jessica Houston

The sky was a doorway

Jessica Houston

Painting - 7 x 9 x 2 inch

$1,242

Fine Art Drawings, Taking place, Jessica Houston

Taking place

Jessica Houston

Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Fine Art Drawings, Drawing in water, Jessica Houston

Drawing in water

Jessica Houston

Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch

$1,581

Painting, 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

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

Painting, The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody., Jessica Houston

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

Painting, We were sledgehaulers at least as good as Captain Scott’s husky dogs, Jessica Houston

We were sledgehaulers at least as good as Captain Scott’s husky dogs

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

$2,033

Painting, 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

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

Painting, 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

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

Painting, ..…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

..…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

Painting, …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

…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

Painting, 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

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

Painting, When I was little more than a child my imagination was caught by a newspaper account of the voyage of the Belgica…, Jessica Houston

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

Painting, …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

…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

Painting, 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

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

Painting, A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910., Jessica Houston

A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

$2,033

Painting, 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

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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Who is the artist?

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.

What is Jessica Houston’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Swathes of Color

When was Jessica Houston born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1970