Jessica Krause Smith

Contemporary Neo Abstract Expressionist Painter.
Krause Smith's work is a visual response to her environments, experiences and emotions. Through paint application and gestural mark making, she engages with tension and harmony in her compositions in a process that uses moment, movement, memory, and materiality. Drawing on dualities like chaos and control, darkness and light, accumulation and flow, biology and technology, she translate’s inner and outer landscapes - feelings, dreams, sounds, and fleeting sensations - into a visual language of color, gesture, texture and mark.

Her work is driven by a process that embraces both intention and accident, where spontaneous gestural marks evolve into resolved compositions and celebrate the subconscious connection between the mind, heart, and hand. By incorporating a range of materials, including acrylic, latex house paint, spray paint, oil sticks, and found elements such as glitter, torn paper, industrial plastics and objects into her paintings, which are built through layered gestures that develop over time or emerge in a single energetic session, she has developed a vocabulary of color, line, texture and shape that mix with surprise objects added in.

Jessica Krause Smith lives and wor...

Skidmore College (Studio Art), 1997
Saratoga Springs, NY

Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including at IFAC Arts, Walter Wickiser Gallery, LIC Arts, and Sotheby’s. She has had notable solo exhibitions: Natural Tendencies at IFAC Arts at The Yard on the Lower East Side in 2024, PIRO’KLASTIK at Yashar Gallery in Brooklyn in 2017, Abstractions in New Hartford, NY in 2016, and others. Her recent group exhibitions include Echoes at Yashar Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (2025), Inner Worlds, Outer Forms at Saint Marks Arts in the East Village (2024), Vivid Vibrations at The Yard Gowanus, Brooklyn (2023), and Mapping the Abstract at Pinkwater Gallery in Kingston, NY (2023). Her work is also featured in the permanent collection of the Tang Museum at Skidmore College and in numerous private collections across the U.S.