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Jessie Homer French was born in New York in 1940. She currently lives and works in Mountain Center, California, US. 

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.

Solo exhibitions include: West Coast, MASSIMODECARLO, London, UK (2021); Chernobyl, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA, US (2020); Paintings 1978-2018, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, IE (2019); American Pastoral, Art Basel Hong Kong, HK (2018); Mapestries, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, US (2015). 
Group exhibitions include: Materia Medica, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA, US (2020); Life Still, CLEARING, New York, NY, US (2020); Eighty at Eighty: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, US (2018); Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, US. 

French’s work is included in the collections of the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Jessie Homer French

BRIDGEPORT CEMETERY, 2020
Oil on canvas
76.2 × 101.6 cm / 30 × 40 inches

Jessie Homer French

WINTER BURIAL, 2020
Oil on canvas
81.3 × 66 cm / 32 × 26 inches

Jessie Homer French

HARE HOUSE, 2020
Oil on plywood
61 × 61 cm / 24 × 24 inches

Jessie Homer French

STEALTH SPRING, 2020
Oil on canvas
40.6 × 61 cm / 16 × 24 inches

Jessie Homer French

PINE FOREST FIRE, 2019
Oil on plywood
30.5 × 44.5 cm / 12 × 17 1/2 inches

Jessie Homer French

EARTHQUAKE FAULT ZONES AND STEELHEAD RIVERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2018
Fabric, thread, fabric paint and pens
132.1 × 104.1 cm / 52 × 41 inches

Jessie Homer French

NEAR SANTA CRUZ, 1998
Oil on canvas
76.2 × 101.6 cm / 30 × 40 inches

Jessie Homer French

EZRA AND THE SKUNK, 1988
Acrylic and oil on plywood
111.76 × 220.9 cm / 44 × 87 inches