About Jesse
Jesse Greenwood is a Tucson, AZ-based painter whose work specifically seeks to examine how we navigate orienting ourselves to our discernment of reality in a cultural, emotional, and spiritual context. Leveraging from a decade of commercial illustration and plein air experience, Greenwood utilizes his expertise in color, form, and perspective to depict imagery that blurs lines between conscious observation and inner topography of thought and dream.
Salient to Greenwood’s painting practice is a consideration of a collective experience of interpretation, his paintings inherently beckoning an invitation to engage in community and relationship. Human pleasures and traumas, memories and histories, desires and fears– Greenwood's work is an interest in embodying the intersection between these weighty 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