Jessica Krause Smith

I have been an intuitive abstract artist for over 25 years. With layers of expressive and energetic gestures, lines, and marks, I create my paintings with acrylic paint, latex house paint and mixed media on canvas. I work spontaneously with my subconscious as a guide, but also with intention filtered by my formal education. My style of painting grew from being drawn to the ambiguity and emotion of abstract expressionism - I have a passion for color and form and for using paint as a fluid and expressive medium. I am inspired by things universal and personal, man-made and natural, spiritual and mythological. I see the act of intuitive painting as a metaphor of life: there is a balance of harmony and chaos both in the process and in the final work, just as in life itself.
BIO
Born in upstate New York, Jessica lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC and has a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
BS: Studio Art