About
Jes Gamble invites viewers on an intimate exploration of human memory and spirit through her interdisciplinary creations. Her artwork explores human experience inviting personal connections by exploring memory and mending through an ethereal journey of the mind and body. Transforming paint, photography, installation, sculpture, textiles, video, and wearable embodiments, she examines topics including feminism, psychology, organic systems and the internal spirit.
Gamble uses photography to sustain site-specific performances that explore the emotional journey from fear to empowerment. Her use of fabric and erratic stitching invoke a history of the female experience while evoking a discomfort and inescapable partnership with the lived experiences of a contemporary woman and their body.
"The act of stitching seen both in reality and in my artwork is a representation of mending and marking the experience's of one's soul and physical form. These metaphors speak on many connecting pathways and investigations both visually and philosophically."
Gamble growing out of many her own personal life experiences has sought to fight for emotional and social justice rights for women and individuals throughout her career. Including a social justice project, Silent Strength, where photography, sculpture, video and sound installations will be some of the main components in educating and spurring conversations on how to push forward positively in our communities creating lasting justice for individuals.
Born in 1981 in Memphis, TN., She attended the Pennsylvania State University where she received her BFA in painting and drawing in 2006. She then moved to Philadelphia that same year. In 2009 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she graduated with her Master of Fine Arts, May 2011. Gamble has exhibited her works in a number of prestigious galleries and museums including, The Barnes Foundation and The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art She has also been the recipient of many grants, scholarships and awards including the Sandra Karlin Award of Excellence. In 2015, her work was selected to represent the Art and Culture section of the PEW Charitable Trusts, State of the City, Philadelphia.
Gamble was recently an exhibiting artist at The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, January to April, 2018.
Jes Gamble will be an exhibiting artist in the 2 person art exhibition, “Imago Refracted” in Rome, Italy this October, 2024. Along with exhibiting during, “Rome Art Week”, October 21st - 26th.
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