JESSICA GERON
Jessica Geron is a Brisbane-based artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney.
With tongue firmly in cheek, she brings together cultural elements of assorted trash and treasure, to create moments of hilarity, fantasy and pure (and impure) decorative distraction. She quotes liberally from a rich history of pattern-work, films, personal photographs, airport novellas, life in the suburbs and a bottomless supply of weird and wonderful web imagery.
Her work is upbeat, happy, kitsch and colourful. It makes no attempt to discuss politics and it avoids altogether the dull, doom and gloom of the nightly news. The focus is on the beauty and joy of the composition, the impulsive use of colour and the indulgent lashings of bright, luscious impasto.
Education
2006
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, College of Fine Arts, University of new South Wales
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Chromatic Carnival, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2010
Patterns of Behaviour, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2009
Selected Works, Xavier Artspace, Sydney
2008
Factitious Fictions, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney
2007
Vox Pop!, Chauvel Gallery, Sydney
Award Shows
2011
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2010
The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
2009
Waverley Art Prize, Sydney
2008
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
Marrickville Art Prize, At The Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2007
City of Villages Art Competition (Winner), Sydney
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Marrickville Art Prize, At The Vanishing Point, Sydney
Willoughby Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney
Agendo Art Prize, Gardner Galleries, Melbourne
Waverley Art Prize, Sydney
Williamstown Tattersalls Art Prize, Victoria
2006
MCQ International Art Prize, ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney
Group Shows
2012
The Magic of Racing - Retrospect Galleries, Broadbeach
2011
Fringe Arts (Sydney Fringe Festival), Seymour Centre, Sydney
Linden Postcard Show , Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award (Online Finalist) Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2010
* INDEX.#01 - Index, St Peters NSW Australia
* CarriageARTworks 2010, Contemporary Art From The City Fringe - Carriageworks, Eveleigh NSW Australia
2009
* Aluminium and Tin, 10 Years of Hardware Gallery - Hardware Gallery,Enmore NSW Australia
* Les Petits - Mary Place Gallery Paddington NSW Australia
* The Ikea Home Project - Carriageworks, Eveleigh NSW Australia
* Big Aussie Icons - Hardware Gallery, Enmore NSW Australia
* Queen and Country - Gaffa Gallery - Surry Hills NSW 2010 - Sydney NSW Australia
* Star Gazing - At The Vanishing Point & Hardware Gallery - Enmore, Newtown NSW Australia
* Fundraising Art Show For Victoria's Bushfire Victims - Croydon West Primary School VIC Australia
* Art for Life, Bushfire Appeal - Melbourne Town Hall VIC Australia
* A Brush with Verse - Forest to Furniture, Tenterfield NSW Australia
* Portrait Prize - Brunswick St Gallery - Fitzroy VIC Australia
2008
* Food For Thought – NG Gallery @ Mission – Chippendale Australia
* safARI 2008 - An Artist run initiative - Gaffa Gallery - Surry Hills, NSW Australia
* Kudos to Kudos - Kudos Gallery - Paddington NSW Australia
* Seven Emerging Artists – Pollock Gallery - Richmond VIC Australia
2007
* Smash Hits - Paramatta Artists Studio Gallery - Parramatta NSW Australia
* Bicycle Film Festival- Mori Gallery - Sydney NSW Australia
* Eleven-Director’s Choice 2007 – Group show - Harrison Gallery - Paddington NSW Australia
* New Works – Pollock Gallery– Richmond VIC Australia
2006
* The Academy Of Spherical Arts -Toronto Canada
* Five Young Artists -Harrison Gallery -Paddington NSW Australia
* Sydney Art Fair -Hordern Pavilion, Fox Studios -Moore Park NSW Australia
* 9 x 5 Truck show -Sydney Australia -International Noise (An artist run initiative)
* Copy Cat - Under the Bridge - Barcom St, Paddington NSW Australia International Noise (An artist run initiative)
2005
* The Road to Melbourne - Blue Dot Gallery -Toronto Canada
* Gallery Launch - LushArt Gallery -Surry Hills NSW Australia
* Real Refuses - Tap Gallery Darlinghurst NSW Australia
* Pearl Tsunami Aid Exhibition - Sheffer Gallery, Darlington NSW Australia
* Portrait - Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne VIC Australia
2004
* Muffled - Kudos Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia
* Without Reason - COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, Sydney NSW Australia
* Real Refuses - Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW Australia
* Resilience - The Women’s Library, Newtown NSW Australia
2003
* Stockroom collection - Sauc Gallery , Surry Hills NSW Australia
* Graduation Show - College of Fine Arts, University of NSW Australia
Amnesty International Exhibition, Tap Gallery, Sydney
Publications
2008
Em Files, Jessica Geron – By Maurice O’Riordan – Art Monthly Australia – June 2008, Issue No.210, p.49
2007
Randwick Artist eyes Newtown – By Nick Montcreiff-Hill – Page 13 Southern Courier – 25/07/07
Streets ahead in final – By Rashell Habib – Inner West Courier 24/07/2007
King Street painting wins Sydney art prize – By Caro Meldrum – Posted 18/07/07 – ABC news - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/18/1981971.htm
2006
The Constant Student – An Interview with Jessica Geron - By Janis Lander -The College Voice