Artist Statement
Jessie Marie is a New Orleans-based visual artist whose photographic work explores the interplay of light, line and form. Her process prioritizes the authenticity of the moment that inspired the image, using minimal manipulation—whether through traditional darkroom techniques or digital production—to preserve its original essence. Acknowledging the human tendency to interpret, categorize, and assign meaning to visual information, the artist developed a personal ethos before the rise of social media, to intentionally limit shaping or directing the viewer's interpretation of the art. She has reaffirmed this approach in the current state of constant curation that has inexplicitly increased since the explosion of the digital age. She finds joy in the freedom of offering imagery that invites viewers to navigate it through the lens of their own lived experiences and prioritizes intuition and the sensory experience in both the creation and viewing of her art.
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Body of Work
Colorful Abstraction: An exploration of color and form spanning over twenty years, yielding painterly, abstract photographic images. Using a multi-step process and in-camera manipulation, the artist captures exact images on 35mm film (pre-2007), which are then printed using traditional color darkroom techniques. From 2007 to the present, digital formats are employed and printed using high-quality digital printing methods.
Photographic Studies: A multi-decade study capturing the interplay between light, line, and texture as found in the world around us. It is the dynamic relationship between these visual elements that evokes an emotional response in the artist, triggering a physical impulse to capture the image. The remnants of this reaction are the resulting photographs. The artist employs both 35mm film with traditional darkroom printing techniques and digital formats with high-quality digital printing methods in this body of work.
Sunday Stroll Series: The informality of strolling through a location allows the artist’s innate emotional response to the visual uniqueness of a place to guide the decision of what is worthy of being captured. Images are created in digital formats and printed using high-quality digital printing techniques.
Photo Stories: This natural light portrait series takes an improvisational approach to capturing the mood and movement of the model. From these spontaneous moments, a fictional narrative emerges for the artist to explore. Images are created in digital formats and printed using high-quality digital printing techniques.
