Jessica Cannon

Published: June 1, 2023, 2:58 p.m.

Photo by Lila Barth\nJessica Cannon (b. 1979, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. \nShe earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design and teaches at Parsons and CUNY Queens College. She is a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council\u2019s Community Arts Fund Grant and has exhibited in solo and group shows at Winston\u2019s Los Angeles, Honey Ramka (Brooklyn, NY), Crush Curatorial (Amagansett, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, among others.\nVeils, an exhibition of new paintings will be on view at the\xa0Polina Berlin Gallery in New York, NY through June 24th. Cannon's\xa0mystic landscapes confront time with a sense of ontological awe. She employs personal and symbolic language in concert with geometric motifs to depict the horizon and the space beyond it.\n\nJessica Cannon Let It Be The Sky, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen 72 x 60 inches 182.9 x 152.4 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery.\n\nJessica Cannon Capitan, Spinning Light, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on canvas 44 x 36 inches 111.8 x 91.4 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery.\n\nJessica Cannon Setting Arch, 2023 Acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen 17 x 14 inches 43.2 x 35.6 cm Photo: Steven Probert. Courtesy the artist and Polina Berlin Gallery.