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Jessica Dunne is a highly accomplished painter and printmaker, whose new, fresh works of oil on panel are presented in our Director’s Choice Gallery. Dunne’s small elegant still life paintings convey a sense of serene introspection where commonplace objects and sights capture and impress upon us the feel of a particular moment in time. Her latest body of work affords us an intimate glimpse into Dunne’s recent travels, where her narratives spread across continents, as she mixes the old and the new from Western Europe to the East coast. Urban environments and rural landscapes invite us into scenes of isolation, abandoned by human form, yet that are strangely poetic in their sense of place.

Rock Studios, Ucross, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Rock Studios, Ucross
Oil on Panel, 2003
9" x 12"
Inclement Weather, Djerassi, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Inclement Weather, Djerassi
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Full Moon, Ulloa, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Full Moon, Ulloa
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Packing Boxes, Copyright 2002, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Packing Boxes
Oil on Panel, 2002
9" x 12"Piece is sold
Linen Tube, Virginia, Copyright 2002, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Linen Tube, Virginia
Oil on Panel, 2002
9" x 12"
Reflecting Can, Copyright 2002, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Reflecting Can
Oil on Panel, 2002
9" x 12"
Lame Table, Spain, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Lame Table, Spain
Oil on Panel, 2004
8" x 10"
Plastic Chairs, Spain, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Plastic Chairs, Spain
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Candle Light, Dorland, Copyright 1999, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Candle Light, Dorland
Oil on Panel, 1999
8" x 10"
Beach Debris, Maine, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Beach Debris, Maine
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Incoming Tide, Maine, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Incoming Tide, Maine
Oil on Panel, 2004
11" x 14"
Changing Trees, Wyoming, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Changing Trees, Wyoming
Oil on Panel, 2003
11" x 14"
Faucet, Ucross, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Faucet, Ucross
Oil on Panel, 2003
8" x 10"
Lobster Buoy I,, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Lobster Buoy I,
Oil on Panel, 2004
8" x 10"
Lobster Buoy III,, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Lobster Buoy III,
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
LAX, Copyright 2002, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
LAX
Oil on Panel, 2002
11" x 14"
Skip's Nemesis, Djerassi, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Skip's Nemesis, Djerassi
Oil on Panel, 2003
9" x 12"
Mountains, Mojacar, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Mountains, Mojacar
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Rocks and Grass, Maine I, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Rocks and Grass, Maine I
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Rocks and Grass, Maine II, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Rocks and Grass, Maine II
Oil on Panel, 2004
9" x 12"
Train Study, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Train Study
Oil on Panel, 2003
13" x 16"Piece is sold
Weir's Waste, Copyright 2002, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Weir's Waste
Oil on Panel, 2002
9" x 12"
Ucross Lunch Bag 1, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Ucross Lunch Bag 1
Oil on Panel, 2003
8" x 10"
Ucross Lunch Bag with Sunscreen, Copyright 2003, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Ucross Lunch Bag with Sunscreen
Oil on Panel, 2003
8" x 10"
Sink, Spain, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Sink, Spain
Oil on Panel, 2004
12" x 9"
Fluffy Quilt, Spain, Copyright 2004, Jessica Dunne -- Click to Expand...
Fluffy Quilt, Spain
Oil on Panel, 2004
10" x 8"
Jessica Dunne wishes to thank the following
foundations for making this work possible:

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, Connecticut
The Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
The Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, Maine
Fundacion Valparaise, Mojacar, Spain
And Dorland Mountain Artists Colony, Temecula, California -
with great sadness since Dorland burned down this year.

 

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