Jessica Tawczynski
MFA ’17 Fine Arts 2D
Jessica Tawczynski makes wild paper-based works that reach into the realms of tapestry making, printmaking practices, installation and the history of painting. Built through a process of collage, accumulation of found materials, and map-making, each piece is resolved as individual anthropomorphic caricatures of the places and landscapes Tawczynski has treaded. Utilizing science as an observation practice, she creates her own DIY printmaking processes and develops visual languages that place importance on the climate crisis, curiosity about the universe at large, and her own feminine identity. Each work seems to grapple with varying stages of emotional intelligence and find their meaning through material agency, relationship to the body and references to the sublime components of an environment under constant transformation.
Jessica Tawczynski is a multidisciplinary artist in Boston. At LBIF (NJ), Tawczynski’s work was curated by Esther Adler, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA (2022), and Kim Conaty, Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2024). In Iceland, she attended residencies at Akureyri Art Museum and Olafsfjordur Museum. Selected exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK (NY), PEG Center (MA), and Rose Center for the Arts (WA).
