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Jessie Mahon (b. 1993) grew up in the American Midwest – Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan – before spending her high school years in Texas and Louisiana. After earning a BFA in Theatre, she moved to New York City and freelanced as a scenic artist, painting sets for Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and film. She later settled in Los Angeles where she spent five years cultivating a tender, sophisticated visual language. Now based again in New York City, she works full-time in her studio in Brooklyn.

Through dreamlike scenes, observations, and portraits, Jessie explores an expansive and evolving depiction of self. At once familiar and unknowable, her colored pencil drawings are populated by anonymous figures filled with inner landscapes of loneliness, memory, beauty, violence, confusion, levity, turmoil, and quiet contemplation. Each piece invites viewers into a portal, engaging with the complexities of human experience that observation alone cannot fully capture.

Her biggest sources of inspiration come from the elevation of ordinary people, places, and feelings paired with the vividness, elegance, and surrealism of ‘80s-00s animation. (Think William Eggleston meets Hayao Miyazaki.) Narrative is the foundation of Jessie’s creative practice, heavily influenced by her background in theatre and true love for storytelling and collaboration.

Her first group exhibition at Rockefeller Center led to collaborations with Bermudez Projects, MyMA, Macmillan Publishing Group, Netflix, HBO, Booooooom, Umico, La Luz de Jesus, Madison Wells Media, The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, and the Mattie Kelly Arts Center (permanent collection). She has completed residencies in Virginia, New York, Portugal, and Mexico. She is honored to be an artist ambassador for the NYCLU for the fourth year in a row and is a proud co-founder of Milroy Projects.

Thank you so much for being here.

Commissions –

Jessie takes on a limited number of commissions for select private and commercial clients. If you would like to get in touch regarding a commission or special project please feel free to reach out via email.

Press + links –

Nassau Avenue Gallery | limited edition giclée prints available for purchase, Brooklyn, NY

Gallery Umico | custom-framed limited edition giclée prints available for purchase, Los Angeles, CA

Rising Stars 2024 | Saatchi Art (featured on page 26)

A Brief Conversation Interview filmed, edited, and moderated by Christine Mai Nguyen

The Quiet Book by Booooooom (featured on page 31)

The Flag Project, Featuring 193 Different Designs Celebrating NYC, Opens In Rockefeller Center by Gothamist

Leaning into Mistakes: Intuitive Art Making class on Skillshare

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