For more than a decade, Jessica Rohrer has drawn source material from the homes and neighborhoods she has inhabited—from her birthplace in Wisconsin to New Jersey, where she currently lives and works. Often labor-intensive, her paintings explore ideas of representation, public and private space, identity, memory, and the impulse to control one’s surrounding environment.
Rohrer received her MFA in Painting from the Yale University School of Art and holds a BA from Northwestern University, with post-graduate study at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Wave Hill, and the Guttenberg Space and Time Residency. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States since 1998 and is held in numerous private collections. Rohrer’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, and The New Yorker. She lives and works in New Jersey.
