News
I had the pleasure of performing in Koyoltzintli’s Earth Sounds at DIA Chelsea in July 2024 as part of the closing event of Delcy Morelos’ epic exhibition El Abrazo
You can watch the performance here
My video sculpture installation Untitled (Soil Being) is on view now through Spring 2025 in the lobby of the Durst Humanities building at Purchase College.
You can read more about it here
Artwork Published in Audubon Magazine
I am thrilled to have created an original work of art from plant matter foraged at Inwood Hill Park for Audubon Magazine.
For the Birds, a group show of artist-made birdhouses at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, is on exhibition through 10/23/22
Ancestral Echoes Group Show at SVA Gramercy Gallery on exhibit May 10-28, 2022
My drawings of dried ocean salt and plankton are on exhibition at SVA’s Gramercy gallery
Exhibition at Bronx Council on the Arts through March 4th, 2022
I have several works in a lovely group exhibition entitled “No Nature” at the Bronx Council on the Arts now through March 4th.
Article in Audubon Magazine about Mural:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-audubon-mural-project-brings-birdsong-life-washington-heights
Permanent Mural Installation for the Audubon Mural Project November 2021
I created my first permanent outdoor installation: a mural for the Audubon Mural Project on 173rd street and Broadway. It depicts the American Robin’s song in the form of a spectrogram, created using foraged glass from Highbridge Park, along with cast cement hands of local Washington Heights environmental stewards protruding from the wall.
Exhibition at Queens Botanical Garden Now through September 6th, 2021
I am so pleased that 31 of my 300+ works from the series “Walking Broadway: Signs of Nature on the Wickquasgeck Trail” will be on view at the Queens Botanical Garden art gallery.
Exhibition at Kenise Barnes Fine Art Gallery Fall 2020
I am thrilled to be exhibiting a series of collages in the Project Space at Kenise Barnes Fine Art. The show will run from September 25th- November 7th.
Virtual Open Studio Spring 2020
On Thursday April 30th from 6-7pm The Zero Experiment hosted a tour of my art studio. Rabasi Joss performed live and a portion of proceeds from sales were shared with New Alternatives. You can watch the tour HERE
Artist Talk Winter 2020
On Saturday February 22nd I will be giving an artist talk along with the other artists participating in the show OASIS. The talk will be held at 5-6pm in the Bronx Library Center.
OASIS was featured on News12 Winter 2020
http://bronx.news12.com/story/41700811/exhibition-displays-art-in-fordham-plaza-windows
OASIS on exhibit 1/10-2/28/20
I am pleased to be participating in the three woman show Oasis at 1 Fordham Plaza alongside artists Xin Song and Rachel Sydlowski curated by Laura James. This public installation will be on view through the end of February.
Article July 11th, 2019
On the anniversary of the release of Childish Gambino’s Summerpack, Anna Toscano wrote an article about my work for Radio1088:
https://radio1088.it/childish-gambino-e-il-surriscaldamento-globale/
Art Sale! Spring 2019
I am holding a Spring Studio Sale. Email me for more information: jessicamaffia@gmail.com. You can read more about it here:
https://mailchi.mp/8a05ea718e63/art-jessica-maffia?e=[UNIQID]
Albee Foundation
I am thrilled to share that I have been invited to the Albee foundation as an artist in residence for 6 weeks starting in September
Window Installation “Inner Geographies” at Chashama’s Space to Present 2019
On view Jan 11th- Feb 8th, 2019 Monday-Friday 12-6pm https://chashama.org/event/inner-geographies/
Album Artwork for Childish Gambino 2018
I had the tremendous honor of having created the artwork for Childish Gambino's two latest singles.
You can listen here:
https://youtu.be/diLp6hUqvVk
https://youtu.be/ieL7BHjiyd8
https://www.rollingstone.com/…/hear-childish-gambinos-bree…/
Artist Residency at the Audubon Society on Governor's Island 2018
I am so happy to have the opportunity to work on my newest series of self-portrait silhouettes for one month in September at the Audobon Society on Governor's Island. My studio will be open to the public Wed-Sun 11-5.
http://www.nycaudubon.org/gov-island
Hell's Kitchen Foundation Grant 2018
I am so grateful to be a second-time recipient of a grant from the Hell's Kitchen Foundation
Spring Break Art Show 2018
Chashama invited me to work on my latest series live during the Spring Break Art Show.
Holocenter Residency June 2017
I am thrilled to have been granted studio space in June at the Holocenter on Governor's Island!
Lanterns for Peace at FIGMENT NYC June 3-4, 2017
http://newyork.figmentproject.org/artist_and_projects
Lanterns for Peace in the news again:
Puffin Foundation West Grant! February 2017
I am thrilled to be a 2017 recipient of a grant from Puffin Foundation West for Lanterns for Peace!
http://puffinwest.org/category/2017-grant-awardees/
Lanterns for Peace at FiveMyles Gallery in Crown Heights during President's Week February 2016
The lanterns will stay alive! I will be exhibiting 100+ of them from 2/20-2/26 from 1-8 pm at 558 St. Johns Place in BK
Lanterns for Peace at 3-Squared Gallery in Chelsea, NY during Presidential Inauguration January 2017
I installed 250 lanterns in the gallery on which were written 150 people's response to the question What do we do now? 100 blank lanterns were left for people to write their thoughts as they passed through the installation. The exhibition was selected for NY1's "Your Weekend Starts Now" and inspired a blogpost at Last American Childhood:
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/arts/2017/01/18/your-weekend-starts-now-1-19-17.html
http://lastamericanchildhood.blogspot.com/2017/01/lanterns.html
Lanterns for Peace installed in Taos Town Plaza November 2016
I am delighted to share that I received permission from the Taos Town Hall to create an installation of lanterns at the Taos Plaza gazebo. In my heavy grief over the election results, I was inspired by a German children's song "Lantern lantern stay alive. It's dark outside but my light keeps shining." I compiled people's answers to the question "what do we do now?" and have made an installation of lanterns. I intend to bring the project to NY when I complete my artist residency. Here are a few links to articles about the project:
http://livetaos.com/slideshow/jessica-maffia-sheds-light-time-uncertainty/
Accessible Art Fair New York November 2016
I am exhibiting several pencil drawings at this new fair at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park South 11/1-11/25
http://www.accessibleartfairnewyork.com/
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fall 2016
I am currently on residence in Taos, NM at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation December 2016!
Multitude - A Two-Woman Exhibition of Drawings at Kenise Barnes Fine Art Gallery 9/17
OPENING: Saturday September 17th, 2016 6:30-8pm
New medium and large scale drawings in colored pencil and ink by New York artist Jessica Maffia and Oregon artist Sarah Morejohn at Kenise Barnes Fine Art
http://www.kbfa.com/new-events/
Hells Kitchen Foundation Grant June 17th, 2016
I am thrilled to announce I am among the very first recipients of a grant from the Hells Kitchen Foundation!
SUNDAY MAY 15th, 2016 6-9PM I will be exhibiting several drawings at the Gotham Arts Salon
Kindly R.S.V.P. by joining the Facebook event or replying to jonathan.deperi@gothamarts.net
SPRING 2016: I have painted a pair of sneakers for the Mississippi Museum of Art. They are being
auctioned off here:
https://www.32auctions.com/SneakerMadness
Check out these articles written about the sneakers:
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/mar/16/working-different-canvas/
SPRING 2016: I have just partnered with VIDA
a new kind of fashion e-commerce company, to design a clothing line that is based on my artwork. For every product sold, VIDA hopes to provide the gift of literacy to the makers they work with. Below are some of my favorite items from this collection.
http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/jessica-maffia
2016 I have 6 drawings on exhibition at the interior design showroom at 50 Riverside Blvd. through
Bjorn Bjornsson
SUMMER 2015-SPRING 2016 I am exhibiting 5 drawings in Aloft Hotel 49-53 Ann Street · New York, New York, 10038 · United States · Phone: 212- 513-0003
CHECK OUT THIS NEW VIDEO of my work from director Juan David Castilla with soundtrack by Tim Shipman:
SOLO EXHIBITION! SEPTEMBER 10th- OCTOBER 3rd, 2015
My first solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery! I am exhibiting 19 pieces from my series of photo-realistic graphite and colored pencil drawings of cracks and residue on walls.
Talents
Jessica Maffia
September 10th- October 3rd, 2015
Opening Reception: September 10th, 6-8pm
http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/exhibitions/1610
Denise Bibro Fine Art in Chelsea opens its Fall Season with a selected consortium of fresh talent chosen from our recent Art From the Boros III exhibition. Talents will run from September 10th- October 3rd, 2015. In Gallery I, we have a solo exhibition of Brooklyn artist Whitney Wood Bailey and in Gallery II a solo exhibition of Brooklyn artist Linda Kamille Schmidt. In our Platform Gallery we have a solo exhibition of Manhattan artist Jessica Maffia and throughout all three galleries we are soloing Brooklyn sculptor London Tsai. Each emerging artist has developed cohesive bodies of work using different mediums. Each body of work is well crafted and conveys the distinct voice of their respective creator.
JESSICA MAFFIA: Maffia’s works are inspired by the rich mark making of decay, residues and cracks on aging surfaces that she finds around her and in her travels. She considers these unintentional found art. She sees beauty in their forms, color or lack of. Her works are tightly rendered wall markings in pencil on paper. Although the works appear obsessive, they yield haunting, exquisite worlds that compel her and the viewer. She savors the process of looking at things closely to uncover the splendors in the ordinary and the insignificant.
For more information call (212) 647.7030, email info@denisebibrofineat.com, or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com
SEPTEMBER 2015 I am thrilled to return to the Vermont Studio Center for a month-long residency in the fall.
JULY 2015 I will be exhibiting my newest large colored pencil drawings at Denise Bibro Fine Art gallery starting July 16th
MAY 15th - JUNE 15th 2015 My wall drawings were cited here in Hyperallergic during the exhibition "Dangerous Emotions" at The Local.
2014-2015 : Recent articles/ published work: