Jesse Edwards

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to present Hot Town, an exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Jesse Edwards. This work was created in Edwards’ studios on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (2010 – 2018) and Edwards offers this show as a souvenir of his “New York years”.

Jesse Edwards historicizes American counterculture by representing its symbols and iconic imagery in formal art historical genres such as still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. He paints with oils on linen; he is, in essence, a “realist” painter who captures the overt milieu of decadent tension that infiltrated his daily life in The Bowery and Chinatown. His compositions investigate light, perspective, draping, and pose.

This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Jesse Edwards (USA, b. 1977) lives and works in New York City and Seattle. He studied oil painting at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle (2002) and later ceramics with Charles Krafft at Villa Delirium Delft Works, also in Seattle. Solo exhibitions include See the Words I Can't Say, New Release Gallery, NYC, NY (2017), Let's Watch TV All Day, 6817, Los Angeles, CA (2015); and a Two-person show (with Erik Brunetti), Vito Schnabel, NYC, NY (2014). He was included in It’s All Good…, Diane Rosenstein Gallery (2017), Coney Art Walls (Curated by Jeffery Deitch), Coney Island, NY (2015), DSM-V (Curated by David Rimanelli), Vito Schnabel, NYC, NY (2013); and Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, NYC, NY (2012).