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EVENT DESCRIPTION
MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present In Memoriam, the first exhibition by American artist Jessie Homer French in Hong Kong. Featuring a series of works created over the past year, In Memoriam invites us to notice the overlooked corners of our world, to embrace its contradictions, and to discover the quiet magic lying beneath the surface of time.
Homer French’s style balances folkish simplicity with evocative complexity. Her influences are as eclectic as her subjects. She cites a fondness for medieval art, particularly Giotto’s frescoes, with their vibrant colors and disregard for perspective. Early American folk art also informs her work, evident in her preference for flattened planes and bold, narrative-driven compositions. Yet, her style remains distinctly her own, shaped by decades of observation and practice.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Jessie Homer French was born in New York in 1940. She currently lives and works in Oak View, California.A self-taught artist, her paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist’s personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Through a simplified language - only apparently naive, flat colours and calm brushstrokes - Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death, nature and rural life. In her work, humanity appears a toxic intruder in a melancholic nature, and yet, even the paintings with the darkest subjects feature a formal vitality capable of giving extraordinary immediacy to her bittersweet and anti-pastoral compositions, in which creation and destruction coexist with exemplary candour.
Homer French’s work is included in the collections of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
