About

Jessie Marie’s artistic journey began at a young age through the performing arts which was the outlet for an imaginative, rambunctious and curious child. Her passion for photography was sparked after receiving a camera from her grandparents, during a formative trip to New York City where she captured on film the architecture’s lines and shapes that were of interest to her; this became the “act of looking” used in her artistic practice today.

She was surrounded by a family that embraced lifelong learning and encouraged personal expression. In her teenage years in the 90s, she like many of her peers wrestled with life’s big questions, and it was at this time she turned to investigating philosophy, psychology and different forms of religion to make sense of the world around her. After a short time pursuing a psychology degree she pivoted to follow her passion for photography. In 2004 She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., which is where she established her artistic ethos of limiting shaping the interpretation of her work and where she began the core of her body of work through the series Colorful Abstraction and Light, Line, and Form.

Soon after her graduation, she paused her budding career as an artist to follow her soon to be husband around the country in support of his military career and subsequently to raise their children. During the 20+ years as a military spouse and mother of two she continued to flex her creativity and also found alternate avenues that aligned with her family activities such as marketing for local non-profits and building sets and props for local ballet companies.

In 2021 she and her family embarked upon the last few years as an active-duty military family, it was at this time she had a brief but meaningful conversation with her grandfather, who began sculpting and exhibiting art in his eighties, that inspired her to start to show her work again. In 2023 Jessie Marie and her family moved to New Orleans, where she has found inspiration and connection within the city’s vibrant arts community which was the catalyst for her to commit the process of diving back into the art world not as an emerging artists but as a re-emerging artists continuing to explore the same concepts with the same ethos as a young woman but with the depth of her life experience.