bio –

Jessie grew up in the Midwest, splitting time between Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan before heading south to spend high school in Texas and Louisiana. Heavily influenced by the vividness of early 90s and 00s cartoons and video games, along with an acute familiarity of being a new kid throughout her patchworked upbringing, her colored pencil drawings explore an ever-evolving and inclusive depiction of ‘self’. By embellishing figurative outlines with dreamlike landscapes, objects, and elements, her figures act as an invitation to look beyond the circumstances of our everyday lives and engage with details of human complexity which observation alone fails to fully capture. At once unknowable and familiar, the people in her drawings live in between memory, reality, and imagination.

Jessie’s career path has been untraditional, shifting between visual art and performing arts since she was very young. Having received a BFA in Theater, she moved to New York City, where she instead brought her experience in storytelling to visual art, illustration, and design. Her first group exhibition took place at Rockefeller Center and she has since collaborated with galleries, art fairs, and publications in California, New York, North Carolina, and Canada along with art directors and editors at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Booooooom, HBO (Euphoria, Sex Lives of College Girls), Netflix (Adam Sandler’s You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Hulu (Better Things), and Madison Wells Media (hand-painted mural design and installation). Jessie is currently working as an artist ambassador for the New York Civil Liberties Union and developing new drawings for her second solo show.

When she’s not working, Jessie will either be cooking at home, taking very long walks in her neighborhood, reading contemporary fiction, or hosting food-related parties (think hot dog party and potato party).

Thank you so much for being here.

contact –

jessica.d.mahon@gmail.com

@jessiemahon_

press + links –

Original artworks can currently be viewed and purchased through Saatchi Art

THE PRACTICE OF LOOKING Art Installation + Artist Ambassador Class of 2023 in collaboration with the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)

ARRAY zine by Booooooom (drawing on page 17, interview on page 91)

The Quiet Book by Booooooom (featured on page 31)

Meet Jessie Mahon | Visual Artist interview by SHOUTOUT LA

Meet Jessie Mahon interview by Canvas Rebel

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

Best in Show Award at 311 Gallery

Leaning into Mistakes: Intuitive Art Making class on Skillshare

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.