Timothy Taylor Gallery

Jessica Jackson Hutchins won great critical attention for her contribution to the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and two simultaneous New York gallery exhibitions. Hutchins’ mixed media sculptures, ceramics, prints and works on paper are a curious combination of physical gusto tempered by great fragility. Her works act as containers for a wide range of themes – popular and personal, sad and humorous, but always grounded in the messy business of human relationships. As John Motley comments in Art in America, ‘This is art that embroils itself in the unwieldy psychology of life and family with a high degree of emotional candor and intellectual sophistication’.

Jessica Jackson Hutchins (born Chicago, 1972) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She gained her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She has exhibited internationally and her first solo museum presentation will open at the ICA Boston in October. She is currently included in the 11th Lyon Biennale, A Terrible Beauty is Born (curated by Victoria Noorthoorn). Recent solo exhibitions include The Important Thing About A Chair, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2011); Champions at Timothy Taylor Gallery (2010); Over Come Over, Laurel Gitlen, New York (2010); Kitchen Table Allegory, Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2010); Case works 12: Stylite Optimism, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (2007). Group exhibitions include Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York (2011); dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2011); 2010, The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Kurt, The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (2010); Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2009); An Expanded Field of Possibilities, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California (2009). Hutchins’ work is in public and private collections including the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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