Recent Works

2024

2018 - 2024

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How this piece finally turned out. We Watched You Die, 2024. Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper. . Photographed by the inimitable Heather Rasmussen @hitoheather
I finally got this baby photographed, along with some of the ones from COVID times (which I feel weird about still) by the most kind human @hitoheather and stellar photographer. Looking forward to framing it and showing it sometime!
The finished thing. Don’t quote me on that. Might tinker with things another day.
The schematic digital drawing that helped me process how to move forward on a painting
Processing a gnarly cry yesterday during EMDR. Building new worlds alla prima. This gestalt includes salt. Present in my work from the start, an homage to my mother’s unknown people, steeped in the lake of salt, mystery. Eventually we all decom
My favorite place to photograph works is taped to my front door. New WIP.
Reason 14 why not to have a home studio and a puppy: Fife dog made this painting tonight #phmartinswatercolor magenta paw prints throughout the house 🧼🧽🫧
Got a mini projector and it helped me get this face right. Going back to my olden days artmaking methods from Commercial Art II class at Highland high school with the iconic Pat Eddington, rest his soul. My sister stole his watercolor palette and it&
More progress. More hidden messages. More grief processing.
More progress shots. Thinking about the art world too much whip I was making this, but the painting will take it for me so I don’t have to hold this anymore.
Progress
Work in progress. This new work is more unabashed in its therapeutic aim. There have been so many things endured in the past few years that I’ve only gotten space and time to deal with now. Loneliness and grief among them. My work has always be
Fresh paint! Working on four pieces to see which substrate I like the most: linen or canvas, stretcher bars or panel. Which do you think will win?
New big painting. Weird things are happening, mistakes are being transmuted. Thinking about spaces to show a new body of work.
I love hiding secret messages in my paintings I think as a child of someone with OCD superstition, the prospect that someone hid communication that was waiting for me (e.g., notes in walls, messages in bottles) appealed to me - both because of some
Recursive research on Käthe Kollwitz I’m interested in your knowledge about contemporary artists who have made work about war. Please comment all ideas! Something for my PhD is percolating!
A continuing meditation on 🍉 which I cannot wrap my mind around so this piece is not finishing itself. . I kind of prefer this mock-up I did digitally right now. I’m at a place where it’s hard to change the painting for fear of fucking
Studio vibes these days
New wip Not sure what’s going on here…

jess minckley studio

Atwater Village
Los Angeles, CA 90039

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