Jessica Alazraki La Familia Solo Exhibition - Black Wall Street Gallery
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Jessica Alazraki
La Familia
Solo Exhibition
Black Wall Street Gallery
Jessica Alazraki was born and raised in Mexico City, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Universidad Anáhuac. Since 1998, she’s been based in New York City. She also holds a diploma in graphic design from Parsons School of Design and a certificate in drawing and painting from the New York Academy of Art. Jessica has exhibited her work in four solo exhibitions in the United States and in over 50 group exhibitions in both Mexico and the United States. In 2018, she received the Award of Excellence from the Huntington Arts Council and an Honorable Mention Award from the Barrett Art Center. In 2019, she participated in the ARTWorks Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and was selected into the Creative Capital NYC “El Taller” in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute. In 2020, Jessica completed the Trestle Art Space Residency Program, was awarded the New Work Grant by the Queens Art Fund, and won the Diane Etienne Founders Award from the Stamford Art Association. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Hopper Price Award and was a finalist for the Alexander Rutsch Award. More recently, Jessica was named the 2021 MvVo AdArt Show winner and received the Emerging Artist Award from The Jackson Painting Prize. Her work is featured in several publications including New American Paintings, No. 152, Northeast Issue.
ARTIST STATEMENT As a Mexican woman living in New York City, I feel it is my responsibility to open up a dialogue about immigrants. My work intends to bring Latinx life into contemporary art by celebrating the culture and highlighting family values. The narrative shows interior domestic scenes surrounding tables. Bright colors and decorative patterns are very characteristic of my works; in my oil paintings, portraits are always in the foreground and close to the viewer. Intense brushwork provides unique character combined with flat backgrounds to highlight emotion.
Half Dog Diptyque Left Half Dog Diptyque Right
58 x 41 inches 58 x 41 inches
Oil on canvas, 2021 Oil on canvas, 2021
Bending Down
41 x 53 inches
Oil on canvas, 2021
Snack Time in Blue
42.5 x 59 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020
Holding Cat
42 x 42 inches
Oil on canvas, 2021
The B-day
43 x 49 inches
Oil on canvas, 2021
Pink Donut in Pink
42 x 52 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020
Tiger
35 x 35 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Boy with Dog
33 x 20 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Teens with Phones
19 x 41 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020“In this works, we were struck by the use of flat material of paint to emphasize the arbitrariness of space and the capacity of the artist to give voice to a domestic environment. We liked how their collage aesthetic for articulating a believable but morphed space was able to embrace the textures, materials and interactions of family and home in an expensive gesture. The brightness of color runs as a visual interception for the sometimes bored looks of children and adultus as they eat, interact, play on their phones etc. These images reinforce the idea of the complexity of family dynamics, the chaos of the home, the necessity and cultural spcificy of food and the ability to re-craft these elements into a charged interior that is latent with joy and tension.” - Sheilah & Dani Restack, So to Speak Journal.
Strawberry Cake
18 x 24 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Bottle
24 x 18 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Red Hood
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Boy with Cat
24 x 18 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020Phone
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 2020The Bathers 1
60 x 72 inches
Oil on canvas, 2018The Bathers 2
60 x 72 inches
Oil on canvas, 2018The Bathers 3
60 x 72 inches
Oil on canvas, 2018Balloons
60 x 48 inches
Oil on canvas, 2018Teddy
35 x 50 inches
Oil on canvas, 2018EDUCATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS
NY Academy of Art -MFA Studies, 2015-2016 La Familia – Black Wall Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
NY Academy of Art- Certificate in Drawing & Painting, 2015 Portraits of Latino Immigrants - JCAL Queens, NY- 2020
Long Island Academy of Fine Art- Atelier Armetta, 2014 New Work Artifact Gallery, New York, NY- 2019
Parsons School of Design, NY Diploma Course in Graphic Design, 2001 Celebrating Latino Life West Side Arts Coalition, New York, NY - 2017
Universidad Anáhuac- México City Bachelor in Communications, 1994
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS Up Close & Personal- Barrett Art Center Poughkeepsie, NY. 2021
MvVO AdArt Show, winner 2021 MvVo Ad Art Show, Oculus, New York, NY. 2019, 2020 & 2021
Jackson Painting Prize, 2021 Emerging Artist Award Art Takes 2021- See Mee Community, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY.
Alexander Rutsch Painting Award, Finalist, 2021. Dissolving Borders—JVS Project Space, New York, NY. 2021
New Artist Work Grant, Queens Council for the Arts, 2020. Parallels & Peripheries- The New York Academy of Art. 2021
Diane Etienne Founders Award- Stamford Arts Association, 2020 Members Exhibition- The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. 2021
ARTDEX- Inaugural Art Competition, 2018 One in a Year, The Painting Center. 2021
Passion Project Award- 2018 Life in a Pressure Cooker- Young Spaces Views. 2020
Booooooom Design Inc.- 2018 Personal Prospecting- Testle Art Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2020
Color- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Best of show silver, 2018 Contemporary Portraiture- Visionary Art Collective. 2020
Circle Foundation for the Arts- Honorable Mention Award, 2017 Artists to Artists- New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. 2020
New Directors '17- Barrett Art Center, 2nd Place, 2017 Third Coast Biennial 2020- K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Tx.
Self-Portrait- Huntington Arts Council. Award of Excellence. 2015 Trestle Members Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY. 2020
2020 South Queens Biennial York College & JCAL. Queens, NY.
RESIDENCIES & PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARTWorks Inc Seminar Fellows Exhibition, JCAL. Queens, NY. 2019
Trestle Art Space Residency Program Spring 2020. Brooklyn, NY Site:Brooklyn- Red. Brooklyn, NY. 2019
NYC "El Taller" Program Awarded by Creative Capital 2019-2020 9th Festival Group Show, Factory Gallery 2, Queens, NY. 2019
Artist Residency & Training Workshop Series Inc. ARTWorks, Inc. May Group Show, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY. 2019
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) 2018-2019 We Believe RJD Gallery, Bridge Hampton, NY. 2019
Saturated: An Eye for Color, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. 2019
PUBLICATIONS Expo 38 Competition- b. j. Spoke Gallery. Huntington, NY. 2019
New American Paintings- No. 152, Northeast Issue. 2021 Somewhat Unwanted- Santo Santa Gallery, Mexico City, Mx. 2018
Art Maze Magazine- Issue 22. 2021 Color- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Brooklyn, NY. 2018
So to Speak: Journal- Vol. 30 Annual Contest Issue. 2021 Typical America- Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY. 2018
Create! Magazine- Issues 20 & 23. 2020 México- Aguafuerte Galería, México City, Mx. 2018
Pikchur- Magazine For Contemporary Art, Issues 5, 2019 & 7, 2020. 47th Juried Members Exhibition- New Britain Museum of American Art. CT. 2017
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 48. 2020 Once Upon A Dream - Era Contemporary. Philadelphia, PA. 2017
Candyfloss Magazine, Feel Good Issue, 2020 Color: Primary to Tertiary- Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
Circle Quarterly Art, Review 5, Summer 2020. 26th Annual Benefit Art Auction- Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. 2017
Through Art Magazine Issue 2. 2020 New Directors '17- Barrett Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY. 2017
Apero Catalog 2017, 2018 & 2020 We The People- Barrett Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY. 2017
Aesthetica Magazine- Issue 89 June/July. 2019 ICONIC Black Panther- Gregorio Escalante Gallery. Los Angeles, CA. 2017
Creativpaper Magazine- Vol 2, Issue 014, 2019 Site: Brooklyn- Cut and Paste: Contemporary Collage. Brooklyn, NY. 2017CONTACT
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