Jesse Gray

Jesse Gray is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with found materials.

She finished the MFA program at the University of British Columbia in 2008, and received a BFA from Simon Fraser University in 2002.
December 30
I’d Wish to Go Hiking, but I Can’t Move My Legs I (from a series of 5) Magazine Collage, 2006 16x20” These works began as a rumination on how much the experience of seeing the natural world through images changes our perception of a “real”, embodied experience of being in the landscape. They are an attempt to re-create examples of sublime Canadian landscape painting, using imagery from travel and ostensibly “scientific” magazines as raw materials where any part of any environment can be extracted and used in place of any other.

I’d Wish to Go Hiking, but I Can’t Move My Legs I

(from a series of 5)

Magazine Collage, 2006

16x20”

These works began as a rumination on how much the experience of seeing the natural world through images changes our perception of a “real”, embodied experience of being in the landscape. They are an attempt to re-create examples of sublime Canadian landscape painting, using imagery from travel and ostensibly “scientific” magazines as raw materials where any part of any environment can be extracted and used in place of any other.