Jessica Russo Scherr

Jessica Russo Scherr makes art to process the world around her.

Having lived across multiple countries, she experiences “home” as fluid rather than fixed. Living in Italy for nearly a decade, for example, has made the entire country feel like home.

Working primarily across oil painting, collage, and printmaking, she constructs images through an accumulation of layered fragments of photographs, color, pattern, and memory. These layers reflect how experience is formed: partial, overlapping, and continually reshaped over time.

Juxtaposition drives her practice. She places images, marks, and references in dialogue, allowing unexpected relationships to surface. Many works also include art historical references, positioning contemporary experience alongside historical visual language.

Photography often serves as a point of departure, but Russo Scherr is equally interested in its limitations. A photograph isolates a fragment of experience but cannot contain its fullness. Her work reconfigures these fragments into open, constructed, and interpretive fields.

Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, the work invites viewers to construct their own connections. Each piece becomes a space of recognition and discovery, where personal me...

Jessica earned her BFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, her Post BA teaching certification from Montclair State University and she attended the MFA program at William Paterson for 2 years and earned a 4.0 for her Masters of Arts in Art Education from Boston University.

Selected Recent Exhibitions:
Blumenauer, Königstein, Germany, November 2023- 2025
Galerie 149, Bremerhaven, Germany, June 29-July 30, 2024
S.C.U.M. Gallery Nostrum, Belgium, May 2023
Art on Loop: at The Holy Art Gallery, London, January 2023
Hope is Maybe: Munich International Airport and touring throughout 2018-2020
Fringe Arts Festival, Bath: Normal Papers, May - June 2018
Studio Baustelle: Berlin, December 2018
Fringe Arts Festival-Bath, Normal Papers, Bath, UK, May-June 2018