Echoes of Disquiet - A Selection of Works on Paper by Jessie Nickerson

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January 3- February 11 2012

Opening Reception: January 7, 2012, 5-7pm at BAC.

Cape Cod Native Jessie Nickerson will exhibit her work at the Brookline Arts Center in an exhibition entitled Echoes of Disquiet, from January 3 - February 11, 2012. Nickersons work has always been strongly rooted in the subconscious. Today she creates surreal environments, which combine elements of observation, internal musings and fairytale iconography.

About Jessie

Jessie Nickerson is a native of Cape Cod where her family settled in the early 1600s. In 2000, she received BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. During her junior year there she spent a semester in the Netherlands, attending the Reitweld Academy in Amsterdam. The Reitweld had an open approach to curriculum and encouraged its many international students to travel, granting Nickerson the freedom to visit museums and art galleries throughout Europe. Nickerson credits this experience with strengthening her love of painting. She became particularly interested in the highly stylized Jugendstil movement as well as the emotionalism of Figurative Expressionism. Nickerson went on to attend Parsons School of Design, and graduated in 2003 with her MFA. She loved the excitement of New York but found herself increasingly homesick for the natural surroundings of the Cape. This longing for the ocean soon became reflected in her work, and her previously abstract-figurative paintings began to take on imagery reminiscent of marine life.