Jessie Marie Fine Art Photography

Jessie Marie is a New Orleans–based visual artist whose practice is rooted in curiosity, perception, and the lifelong impulse to explore the world through movement and observation. Her creative path began in childhood through the performing arts, an outlet that nurtured her imagination and taught her to engage with space, rhythm, and gesture. This early sense of embodied play later transformed into a passion for photography when her grandparents gifted her a camera. During a formative trip to New York City, she became captivated by the city’s architectural lines and geometric forms—an experience that established the act of mindful looking that continues to anchor her work.

Raised in a family that valued inquiry and self-expression, Jessie spent her teenage years investigating philosophy, psychology, and religion as she sought to understand the structures shaping human experience. After briefly pursuing psychology, she shifted fully into visual arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2004. Jessie paused her emerging career to support her husband’s military service and raise their two children, continuing to channel her creativity through graphic design for nonprofit organi...

Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography, Corcoran College of Art + Design, 2004

NO DEAD ARTISTS, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2026

A Little Off Center, Waveland Gallery & Studio, Waveland MS, 2026

Color Abstraction, Backline Wine & Spirits, New Orleans LA, 2026

Alluvium, Scale New Orleans, New Orleans LA, 2026

Amazing Black and White. Modern Visual Arts, Bethlehem PA, 2026

PushPin Show, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans LA, 2026

Manifest, Forth wall, New Orleans LA, 2025

Interplay, Backline Wine & Spirits Exhibition for PhotoNOLA, New Orleans LA, 2025

Vastu, Artworks, Washington D.C., 2006

Art in Transition, Pop-Up Gallery, Takoma Park MD 2005

Art-O-Matic, Washington D.C., 2004

Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for the Digital Arts, Los Angeles CA 2004

BFA Senior Thesis, Hemicycle at the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C., 2004

Go!, Pop-Up gallery, Washington D.C., 2002