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

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, BLOK Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia and was included in the London Biennale.

In 2009, McCambly created two, site-specific installations for the Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA.  Most recently, McCambly's work was selected for inclusion in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's exhibition Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, curated by  Lucía  Sanromán, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

© 2010 Jessica McCambly