I am an artist and educator. I am a father and passionate gardener. My two professional vocations intersect often and each demands slightly different practices that inform the other. I love to learn, love beauty, and can let a question sit for a long time allowing it the space to percolate into a focused endeavor. As a gardener, friend, husband, father I think more connects us than divides us. I believe we’ve truly ceded our ability to discern what is essential as others have used our identifiers/data points to point us in certain directions. Art can help us re-inflate our sense of wonder, and imagine possibilities for a better future.
Contact:
pascajesse@gmail.com
For Gift Project:
pascastudiogiftproject@gmail.com
Studied With: Alice Aycock, Connie Beckley, Bruce Boice, Don Eddy, Andrew Ginzel, Michael Goldberg, Tobi Kahn, Donald Kuspit, Marilyn Minter, Faith Ringgold, Paul Ryan, Jeanne Siegel, Paul Waldman, Jackie Windsor, Jack Whitten, Jack Youngerman
Selected Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions
"Star Skin", Galerie Protege, New York, N.Y. May 23 - June 20, 2013
"Pages from History", John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY, August 2008
"My Heart as a Stock Market" Mehr Gallery, New York, NY, February -March 2008 “MeYouMeYou” Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York , NY: "Project Room" October 2001
Group Exhibitions
New CopenYork curated by D. Dominick Lombardi and Eric Prince, March 16 - April 13, 2017, Galerie Protege, NYC
Silas Marder Gallery, "Bad Jokes", October 13- November 18, 2012, Bridgehampton, N.Y.
Creative Time, Gala 2012, May 4, 2012 Roseland Ballroom, NY, NY
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order, March 21-April 29, 2012 Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY: Microwave Six, July 12- September 15
Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY : "Beautiful Male Objects" June 2004
Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" March 2003
The Painting Center, "Repetition in Discourse" Curated by Phong Bui , New York, NY October 2001 Jamaica Center for the Arts: "Artexts", Jamaica, NY April - June 2001
City College of New York, New York, NY: "Artist as Teacher" November 1997
S.Cono, Brooklyn, NY: "Works on Paper" Curated by Chris Martin, March 1998
S.V.A. Visual Arts Gallery, Curated by Tobi Kahn, New York, NY Feb.-March 1992