Jessica Todd Harper
Legos, 2019
Estimated Value: $2,000

Archival pigment print
16 x 20 inches
Unframed
Edition 1/10
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc.

My interest in art began when I was a small child. My mother used to take my sister and me to all the museums in driving distance from our home in Albany, New York, and we would spend afternoons copying paintings first with crayons and then with charcoal and finally, when we were older and more experienced, with pastels. This pretty traditional artistic preparation took an unexpected course once I started making photographs as a teenager but the familiar canvases of my childhood heroes, John Singer Sargent, Whistler, and Vermeer, still have their influences today. I am interested in making intimate, psychological portraits, where environment plays a large role.

For subject matter I use what I have at hand, family, friends, and more recently, babies and small children. While the greater themes in my work have been fairly consistent over time, the newer subject matter also focuses on the intense and highly charged experience of childhood and having children.

About the Artist:
Jessica Todd Harper

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