Jessica Gath was born in 1975, and grew up in New England. Jessica’s undergrad program was at Tufts University, focusing in Chinese Language and Cultural Studies. She also studied Studio Art, Painting at Brandeis University and got her MFA at MassArt, in SIM. She teaches Visual Language II at MassArt.
Jessica works on a range of different projects. She paints portraits, especially of children. Her portraits are usually done on commission. She also has a range of conceptual projects that she works on, which can include 2D work, sculpture, film, video, installation, and performance pieces. Her work has been shown in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Hong Kong. Her portraits have been featured in several magazines, including Cookie (2006), American Artist (2008), Tufts (2008), and Home (2009). She is still currently working in the South End.
I chose this artist, because this semester I am focusing on portraits. Usually when I paint or draw a portrait, the figure looks much younger than they are in reality. I am studying why my portraits look the way they do. I am realizing that my proportions are incorrect and I round parts of the face that makes the person look very childlike. When looking at my previous work, I realized when I go from the photo to my drawing, there are some aspects that are not correct and when I work on painting a portrait, it progresses even further from what the portrait actually look like. With each step, I somehow stray further from what looks realistic. Because of this I am really focusing on looking at the image to relay it to my portrait drawing. For now, I’m sketching out portraits and sections of the face. I am working on drawing portraits using a grid layout. I would like to transfer what I am learning with the grid format and create large realistic portrait drawings. My goal is to be able to create realistic portrait paintings.
Portraits: http://www.jessicagath.com/
Conceptual work: http://www.jessicagath.org/
Information from the websites and personal conversation.
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| Gabe, 2008 |
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| Francesca, 2007 |
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| Matt, 2009 |
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