Jessica Stoller

Jessica Stoller is a working artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Michigan, she holds her BFA from the College for Creative Studies, MI; and her MFA from Cranbrook Art Academy, MI. She also completed a residency at the Museum of Arts and Design’s Open Studio Program, NY, and has shown her work across the United States. Her work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries including, The Clay Studio, PA; Like The Spice Gallery, NY; and Paul Kotula Projects, MI. Upcoming exhibitions include Bronx Calling at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY and Fresh Figurines at the Fuller Craft Museum in MA.  A Daimler Chrysler Emerging Artist Nominee, she has also lectured and served as a guest critic at several colleges.

Stoller’s work builds upon the rich tradition of commercially produced ceramic figurines that have historically represented social mores and reinforced gender roles, stereotypes and expectations of the time period.  She is interested in creating intimate and provocative female figures that break from the normal conventions of beauty and grace.  Her works reference the long history of the subjugated female body through the prisms of religion, history and modern societal restraints, as they examine cultural ideas of perfected beauty and its relationship to the grotesque.