Visual Artist Jessica Ann Peavy at Rush Arts Gallery
Floating between video vixen and video maverick, Jessica Ann Peavy produces imagined worlds where black women come face to face with self, story-telling and stereotypes.
The intersection of Peavy's backgrounds in film and photography have resulted in an unparalleled visual language that blends color, shapes, lines and textures together in a manner that is beautiful and assertive. Against fantastic backdrops of muted hues and softened edges, frozen facial expressions and momentous gesticulations assume the sacred dialogues that decorate the experience of urban black women from youth to adulthood. Peavy is at the helm of the new wave of young black women artists. Her stills and video pieces have already constructed a powerful space where black women perceive and represent themselves not as victims of history's twisted fate, but as authorities of their own past, present and future experiences. Peavy completed her B.F.A. in photography at Tisch at New York University and M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts.
www.jessicaannpeavy.com
© T.I. Williams
Floating between video vixen and video maverick, Jessica Ann Peavy produces imagined worlds where black women come face to face with self, story-telling and stereotypes.
The intersection of Peavy's backgrounds in film and photography have resulted in an unparalleled visual language that blends color, shapes, lines and textures together in a manner that is beautiful and assertive. Against fantastic backdrops of muted hues and softened edges, frozen facial expressions and momentous gesticulations assume the sacred dialogues that decorate the experience of urban black women from youth to adulthood. Peavy is at the helm of the new wave of young black women artists. Her stills and video pieces have already constructed a powerful space where black women perceive and represent themselves not as victims of history's twisted fate, but as authorities of their own past, present and future experiences. Peavy completed her B.F.A. in photography at Tisch at New York University and M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts.
www.jessicaannpeavy.com
© T.I. Williams
