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Jessica McGhee
Gallery
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Ever-Evolution
This piece reflects my lived experiences and my journey into becoming an art therapist. As a whole-self, I embody multiple traumas and the strength to persist despite those impacts on my overall well-being. My face is my terrain which engages with the world, is a mother and a woman determined to help others who have also experienced the devastating impacts of trauma, whether it be intergenerational, systemic, and/or rooted in intimate partner violence. Trauma is a poison on our bodies, our minds and our collective whole. We cannot advance into our highest selves while consumed with the impacts of trauma.
This mask was hand-built, beginning with a plaster mold of my face. Then resurfaced and sculpted with air dry clay, which caused tension when combined with the
plaster. This tension caused the surface to crack, like the dry and barren desert fault lines; scars at the base level were sustained. Yet these scars were able to mend and become a part of the mask’s emotional and physical landscape. They were able to be built from, and evolved from. As are we all. Next, I applied colors of the deep sea, with flowing seaweed, balancing the habitat. Resilience. The markings around the eyes are the warrior face presentation, maintaining the clear sight, overcoming adversity and maintaining the core-self so that I may fight for the catharsis others. This fight through healing trauma is not something that can be done alone. Throughout time we have needed one another, we would not have evolved to where we are today if we were a solitary species. We need one another at a cellular level and can end up very ill of we are restricted to isolation. Fighting for the well-being of one another is what we all need for communal healing, through all the many different forms of trauma that have been passed through our species. The painted fabric symbolizes community, and those I seek to work with. Our very many complex, dynamic, and beautiful selves. The blood ruby is a symbol of my life energy, which I seek to emit and share.
This ever-evolving mask represents myself in a myriad of ways and has tracked my evolution from a Fine Artist and Teaching Artist, to Art Therapist.
Ever-Evolution
Ever-Evolution
Hand-built mask
Mixed media sculpture
12” x 6”x 4”
May 2022
Private Collection
Currently on display at the
Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY
through March 24, 2023
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Fête Noir
Created for the joint celebration of Fête Noir hosted by the Community Folk Art Center and Black Artist Collective of Syracuse, NY.
Mixed Media on wood coin
24" diameter x 1"
February 2022
Prints available for purchase
Permanent Collection of Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
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Mother Sun
Shining heat
Down upon our gleaming faces
Creation brims festering within our predestination
Light feeding heat,
feeding flowers,
and all we eat;
feeding the you in me.
The sun carries necessary benefit for our nerves, muscles, immune systems, skeletal structures, and mind's eye.
Basking in the sun, resting under the shade of the tree, watching the clouds slowly glide through the tides of sky.
Through the tides of you and I.
Mother Sun...
Mother Sun
Mixed Media on Wood
24”x 36”
August 2019
Available for purchase $1,750
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Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
Roots
Bījā Satya
Mixed Media on Paper
11" x 17"
June 2020
Prints available for purchase
Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
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The Winds, They Fly
Oil and Ink on a Secondhand Map
8”x 12”
July 2019
Private Collection
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With Love
Mixed Media on Wood
24”x 36”
August 2019
Private Collection
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Implicit Resiliency
Trees
Bearing all witness
The eyes of nigh tidal waves
Whilst we dance under our Sun
And see in blades of shale and green
For you,
I stand here
Heart Open to the Sky
For my truth lies within your witness
For all eyes to see
within the ripples of waves
through humanity
You nourish, you feed
So that we may breathe
The Giving Tree,
You to me and thee.
Where are we in this toxic night?
You cause our psyches to sight clearly.
You thrust us into
implicit resiliency.
Plasticity frees us
from the utterly unsightly.
For our trees, we owe our everything
Yet we cut you down
Over and over, we orphan ourselves
As we remove you from our hills and plains.
Plant more.
Bask more; I ask.
Within her grasps,
Heal your mind,
Underneath the apple tree.
© Copyright May 2019 Jessica McGhee, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
Implicit Resiliency
Oil on Wood
Plein Air Observation
Stony Pond State Forest
Erieville, NY
24”x 48”
May 2019
Private Collection
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These Rings
Rings through truth
of time
Thine's mind
Seeking to sea in
Breathe in
Sila
Radiance of the Sun
Basking our truths
Through the air
We glide
Re-Search your poisons
Educate your eyes
Sense the vibrations
You pass
Seek the light in your truth.
Pass not forward the abuse
into your youth.
Sensing tangibly
Tangible, in this existence
Step one within
these many rings
On this never-ending path
toward enlightenment.
© Copyright July 2018 Jessica McGhee, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
These Rings
Mixed Media on Paper
11" x 14"
July 2018
Prints available for purchase $500
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Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
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The Sacred Art of Rising
The Fight
Burning within Me
Brings me through my days and out
Of the abysses of noxious transgressions
As many have set out to claim their territories and eyes
They pay less mind to the actuality of
Cries
We exist and sense to ward off that which would harm us
Though we have evolved past the primordial perils of our ancestors
And seep that vigilance into unnecessary truths
Intergenerational abuse
Tainting the eyes of our youth
Shake off that sludge
Sit in quiet
Witness yourself breathing
Expand your gray matter
See life more coherently
Walk amongst the trees
Take a seat and fall into your sights
See actually
Tend your wounds and do not pass them on
See your youth and empower them
To see their truth
And bask in the beauty of their self.
Elevate all who surround you, for our kin are sacred.
© Copyright May 2019 Jessica McGhee, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
The Sacred Art of Rising
Mixed Media on Wood
36”x 96”
Spring 2019
Original Painting available for purchase $3,500
Prints available for purchase
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Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
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Lexical Priming
The currents of altered life’s dangling things hath carried thou away Into the frosty seas of lines
Thus this time pines for that of the unbroken self, selves
Eyes, the framing sees, frame the soul outstrung among the trees Dangling in light of the stars
Masses burning among far flung fires Imprisoned
Raging with passion
Dying in love
This eye seeks to lay the truth out to dry
For we are all wandering, decaying, escapading towards our sights Dwindle in, circle in, and around
This thing
We call existence.
The siren of the soul carries one throughout the skies
Dancing on the vibrations set current by water’s tides
Who are we, as we step up?
Leap into Sights of The Soul.
Our light carries, and lights yours..
For we are all here for one another.
In this, at times, dark and dreary place, Bask in it all, we must
See the Lights of Us, we must
Follow Truth and your Highest Good, we must Cast aside
The capitalist prisons of sense,
Cast away
The slave labor of the day.
We are here to effect change of the mightiest of decay.
We are here to save our souls from a loss of the innate and free mingling wanderlust. To experience with sight in lucid operations.
To perceive Soul and Sense
With the Self, the Loves, and the Wander.
© Copyright December 2017 Jessica McGhee Olech, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
Lexical Priming
Mixed Media on Wood
48" x 96"
December 2017
Original Painting available for purchase
Prints available for purchase
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Currently on display at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY through March 24, 2023
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On Coexistence
Sweeping Aves
Thinking reflectively
With eyes soaring our skies
They watch us
As we change their lands,
Subtract
Their habitats,
War one another
For disconnects in Cultural Perception
For land which belongs to all of the existence here.
“It’s mine!”
Shout our children,
As we reinforce the notion with each possession
we secure.
Living breathing,
as we all are,
and do.
As our last white rhino fancied
Prior to his final release.
Whales seeking their last breaths
While dying painfully slow in our nets,
Stomachs full of our want-nots.
Kids of color dying for possessing the
Shiny black
Latest Technology
Produced by our competing
Capitalist Means of Production owners
(slave owners with better manners)
We are lost in consumerism,
inadequate wages and insufficient funds.
The top 1% reserving 82% of the income for who’s actual subsistence?
No, it wasn’t a gun.
Just another cell phone. Thank you for your business!
We aren’t who you think we are,
Nor are we as the media and movies depict.
We carry no suicide vests;
Rather compassion, warmth, love
And forgiveness-
For our fellows’ xenophobia.
Even though the real terror and extremism is home grown,
right out of our own confederate backyard.
So many different sides to fear.
The birds, they watch
They see us
Killing each other
Killing them
Destroying their home with our oil spills, concrete jungles, litter, and morally muddied carbon footprints.
Ornithological observation scatters its eyes
and its livelihood
throughout our skies and waterways.
Watching the water present dynamically
and travel extensively,
as people also instinctually do…
Each part of this world presents differently,
fundamentally we are all a part of the one same reality,
the same physical existence.
We are losing our first home,
our first mother.
Louisiana will soon be another Atlantis.
Like water,
Like birds,
We migrate.
Explore…
Stand in awe of beauty.
This is human nature
To never stop reaching
We can course correct whilst growing together and for one another.
Taking care of us together as our mother has.
We can bask in her light together.
And fear not one another for what we do not and cannot know.
This is why we have one other,
to learn and grow together.
© Copyright July 2017 Jessica McGhee, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
On Coexistence
Mixed Media on Wood
24" x 72"
July 2017
Sold at auction to benefit The Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY
Prints available for purchase
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Sifting, Drifting
Mixed Media on Wood
24" x 62"
August 2017
Private Collection
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Under Our Sun
Golden winds twist in, the
Tide’s in.
We Rise in Our lines To dance in Your eyes
Under these trees of Joshua Through the rains of change
Witnessed by Our Pastures Our Herons
Our Winds
This is our One True Home Sacred Home.
Sacred in this physical space, This Physical Life
Which we
Exist in,
Live in, Breathe in, Decease in.
Sunlight through the breezes Milkweed seeds
Float to fly
Through our Eyes
Record us through your lives Mountains, Waters, and Pastures
Our Deserts house as much Hope as your camera’s eye.
Come Dance with me under our Sun...
© Copyright January 2017 Jessica McGhee, Divine Wanderings. All Rights Reserved. #aspiretoinspirelove
Under Our Sun
Mixed Media on Wood
14" x 30"
January 2017
Private Collection
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Navigating Enceladus; Isabella
Mixed Media on Paper
18"x 24"
February 2017
Private Collection
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Anicca
Mixed Media on Wood
29" x 29"
January 2017
Private Collection
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Oceanfront
Mixed Media on Wood
16" x 40"
December 2018
Private Collection
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Sight Set
Ink on Paper
5" x 8"
December 2016
Private Collection
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Walking
Ink on Paper
9" x 12"
December 2012
Private Collection
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Leimert Park
Ink on Paper
14" x 5" x 4"
June 2007
Private Collection
Print not available.
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Coast Series
Mixed Media on Paper
4" x 14"
December 2012
Private Collection
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Exhibitions
Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY; Solo Exhibition paired with theatre production: By the way, Meet Vera Stark. February 24, 2023- March 24, 2023
38th Annual MLK Celebration, Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, JMA Wireless Dome, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, January 22, 2023
Fête Noir, Arts Showcase Hosted by The Black Artist Collective, Community Folk Art Center, February 26, 2022
Geodessy, The Barken Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Ithaca, NY: September 2019
Inevitable Exits, The Michael Sickler Gallery, Group Exhibition, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: May 2-18, 2019
Pop-Up Art Show, The Byrne Building, Solo Exhibition, Syracuse, NY: March 13- 31, 2019
Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY; Solo Exhibition: July 2018- February 2019
RedHouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY; Solo Exhibition: April 6, 2018- May 27, 2018
Shoppingtown, Syracuse, NY; Group Exhibition: May 2018
Apostrophe S', Syracuse, NY; Group Exhibition: December 2017
RedHouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY; Solo Exhibition: October-November 2014
Petit Library, Syracuse, NY; Solo Exhibition: December 2013- January 2014
Press
Maser, J. (2023). Graduate Student McGhee ’19 Finds Passion and Purpose in Art Therapy. Syracuse University News. Link: https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/03/03/graduate-student-jessica-mcghee-19-finds-passion-and-purpose-in-creative-arts-therapy/
Kilpatrick, G. (2023). Fine Artist and painter Jessica McGhee on Inspiration for the Nation. Inspiration for the Nation; 1/22/23. Zoom recording. Link: https://tunein.com/podcasts/p2069454/?topicId=259148694
Harper, D. (2023). Art Exhibition to be Presented at University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Syracuse University News. Link: https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/01/09/art-exhibition-to-be-presented-at-universitys-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration/
Simon, K. (2019) Jessica McGhee, using art to create a higher good. Blackstone Launchpad, Syracuse University. News. Link: https://launchpad.syr.edu/jessica-mcghee-using-art-to-create-a-higher-good/
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Commissions available per request.
Please contact me for a consultation.
Metta.
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