I am interested in the potential for beauty, emotion and nuance within an aesthetically minimal context.  Formal simplicity can evoke complexity and intimacy in experience.  I want the work to look like nothing and everything.

Originally from the North Shore of Boston, MA, Jessica McCambly lives and works in San Diego, CA.  She earned a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design. Currently, McCambly is an Assistant Professor of Art at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, CA.

Investigating ideas of place, connectivity and ephemeral sentimentality via an abstracted vocabulary and minimal iconography, McCambly’s works have been featured in exhibitions at galleries such as Dunn and Brown Contemporary, And/ Or Gallery, Craighead- Green, 500X, Kingston Gallery and Holly Johnson Gallery.  Her work has also been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Dallas Contemporary, the Fuller Museum and BLOK Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia.

In 2010, McCambly’s work was included in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's exhibition Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, curated by Lucía Sanromán.  Most recently, McCambly has been commissioned by the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, CA to create an installation to be featured in Trash, scheduled to open in October of 2011.