AllinOurHead

I am a native New Yorker, adore the city and necessarily escape frequently to the mountains and the ocean. Since 1991 I have exhibited extensively as an artist and have participated, both as an artist and as an organizer/curator, in several large-scale interdisciplinary art events.
This "Shop" features original tee shirt graphic designs that are based on my on-going drawing series, "All in Our Head" and will soon offer archival quality prints of original artwork from the series.The drawings are Rorschach inspired and, much like a nonverbal version of Rorschach’s diagnostic system, I have the blots before me and respond by drawing into them, making sometimes small, or much broader interventions. There is a sense of immediacy in this action that allows me to work intuitively and fluidly. Each response is unique, yet subcategories of imagery emerge which reveal personal preoccupations sometimes funny, or disturbing, or provocative.
My work has been diverse over the years in terms of material and imagery including several painting, drawing and installation/sculpture series but has nonetheless remained focused in its intent. Within each of these projects lie the issues that have always fascinated me: mind, perception, and the challenge to discuss the ineffable in the human experience.
Please see my personal website : http://www.jessicanissen.com/Home.html