I am interested in the potential for emotion and nuance within an aesthetically minimal context. Formal simplicity can evoke complexity and intimacy in experience.

- Jessica McCambly

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, School of Visual Arts. 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, her large-scale works on paper and sculptures have been featured in exhibitions at galleries such as Dunn and Brown Contemporary, And/ Or Gallery, Craighead- Green, 500X, Gallery 414 and Holly Johnson Gallery. McCambly’s work has also been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art in Continuum: The Art Ball 2007 and in the invitational Formica Formatted at The Dallas Contemporary. She has exhibited nationally at Kingston Gallery in Boston, MA and SoFa Gallery at Indiana University and internationally at the London Biennale.

Her new works, which are based on the natural phenomenon of minus tides, will be on view in two upcoming solo exhibitions at IGLOO in Portland, OR and at VAL in Lewisville, TX.