Bedroom Scene 2 Painting

Jessica Rubin is an emerging contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Los Angeles, she has lived in New York for the last 7 years. Her work is primarily figurative, focused on capturing moments of connection and exploring self image. She depicts her subjects in private spaces filled with objects and patterns that give a sense of personality for the subject. Using herself as a model, she gives the viewer an intimate look into her personal spaces both real and fabricated. Rubin has exhibited her work in NYC at galleries such as La MaMa Galleria, The Living Gallery, Chinatown Soup, and more. You can find her work featured in Create Magazing, the All SHE Makes, Create Magazine Art Queens, and Art Girl Rising artist directories, Candyfloss Magazine Blog, and on the Sandcastle Collective website. Her work has most recently been featured in exhibitions with PxP Contemporary and Deep Space Gallery. In Fall 2021 she exhibited her work in the Superfine art fair NYCx1 (Wo)man. My work explores the relationships I have with myself and my surroundings. I examine the way that the spaces we live in can represent and interact with us as much as we do with them. I use patterns and vibrant colors to communicate personality and give the viewer an intimate look into my personal spaces, real and imagined. People often use the items and patterns that they wear and surround themselves with as a form of self-expression, so the collection of things becomes uniquely specific to the individual. Lately I have been thinking a lot about comfort and safe spaces in my work, how I have learned to find comfort in isolation. For much of the last year many of us have spent more time than ever in our own bedrooms and domestic spaces. This forced proximity places another level of importance on our personal spaces and they become a necessary extension of ourselves. We require a level of care for our spaces so they can care for us. Within these spaces, I use the body as a landscape with organic shapes and curves and unnatural vibrant colors. I paint the figures from unusual perspectives, sometimes including the perspective of the subject so the viewers can step into the work as if they are looking down at their own body. This unusual way of viewing the body of another person evokes a sense of distortion of the body that expresses the disconnect that I often feel in my own body with the way feminine bodies are viewed and debated about by others.