About Jesse
Through the synthesis of paint and perception, Jesse Greenwood's work specifically seeks to explore how we navigate orienting ourselves to our discernment of reality in a cultural, emotional, and spiritual context. He does this by intentionally depicting imagery that blurs the distinction between conscious observation and the inner topography of thought and dream.
Participating in this sensorial language is a collective experience of interpretation, inherently beckoning an invitation to engage in community and relationship. We all have pleasures and traumas, memories, desires, fears. Greenwood's paintings are an attempt to embody the intersection between these human conditions and the anecdote of color arranged on a flat surface. This intersection is a place of suggested reality, of perception beyond the periphery, and a resonance of a life beyond purely physical depiction.
In attempting to rebuild a scene in paint from these liminal memory places, a door opens for the viewer to participate in what it means to engage with memory. Greenwood's paintings are invitations to consider that perhaps a memory’s reflection can be as interesting as a supposed reality, to consider what it might look like to view one’s experience through a less-literal lens.
CV
2023: Workshop with painter Calvin Liang
2020-22: Individual critique under painter Glenn Dean
2018: Individual study and mentorship under painter Eric Merrell
2018: Featured illustrator: “Legacy of the Land”, Mountain Sky Guest Ranch, MT
2017: Group exhibition: Ecce Fine Art, Bozeman, MT
2016: Group exhibition: Ecce Fine Art, Bozeman, MT
2015-present: Featured illustrator, “Collector’s Notebook”, Western Art & Architecture
2014: Featured illustrator: “Home Waters”, Big Sky Journal
2013: Solo exhibition: Riverside Studios Gallery, Truckee, CA
2012: Arcadia, group exhibition: The Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Awards and Decorations:
2023: Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist Opportunity Grant
2014: Moonshine Ink Regional Art Contest, Grand Prize, Lake Tahoe, CA
2012: Exclusive participation in architectural design charette with JLF Architects and the Ahmanson Foundation, Anza Borrego, CA
2011-2012: Biola Art Department Scholarship, Los Angeles
Collectors
Vince & Laurie Eccleston, Bakersfield, CA
Steve & Cynthia Mader, Park City, UT
The Muir Family, Bozeman, MT
Jen Trahan, New York, NY
Chris & Jackie Pavelko, San Diego, CA
Dave & Debbie Becker, Poway, CA
Joel & Angi Hasemeyer, Los Angeles, CA
Jeremy & Megan Hubin, Orange, CA
The Prond Family, Bozeman, MT
Rose Bridges, Sacramento, CA
The Waggoner Family, Cashmere, WA
The Weir Family, San Diego, CA