Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971, Chicago) transforms life into art, creating sculptures and collages from everyday objects. With the addition of ceramic and papier-mâché, her family’s kitchen table and living room furniture, along with her favorite pieces of clothing and books, become works of art. A couch is no longer a couch, but a pedestal for sculpture. The rituals of quotidian use linger and infuse Hutchins’s work with charged sentiment. The tension between art and the stuff of life prompts us to think about her formal choices as well as her subject matter.