Current Exhibition
Jessamyn Plotts, Detain / Contain / Bind / Boundary / Membrane / Puncture / Break / Rupture
December 13, 2025–January 3, 2026
Gallery hours
Saturday, December 13, 11am-3pm
Saturday, December 20, 11am-3pm
Saturday, December 27, 11am-3pm
Friday, January 2, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, January 3, 11am-3pm
Jessamyn Plotts is an artist and writer based in Texas. She is a professor at Texas State University, where she teaches drawing and foundations in the School of Art and Design. Plotts grew up in Texas, earned her BFA from Texas State University, and holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University.
Plotts’ work deals with edges—what separates vision from the physical body, or the self from others. Her practice asks: why do we contain and define images the way we do? What happens when the boundaries between art and life, image and body, subject and object begin to blur?
To pursue this blurring, Plotts manipulates the edges of the picture plane—making them soft, irregular, jagged, or broken, sometimes leaning into a traditional rectangular structure. She approaches painting and drawing as methods for exploring separations between mind and body, self and other, using them to situate her lived experience against a backdrop of pop culture images. Within her paintings, subject matter tends to disintegrate rather than cohere, resisting containment.
Drawing plays an equally central role in her practice. Plotts sees drawing as a means of translating thought, while painting becomes a space for testing broader theoretical arguments about the role of painting in contemporary society. Often, these two processes converge—she draws with paint or paints with drawing materials—suggesting that their divergence lies not in medium but in the differing mental states each activity provokes.
In recent years, her work has expanded into installation, performance, and video. Many of her installations position paintings and drawings across multiple planes of space, externalizing the fragmented way we navigate digital images. Her time-based works explore similar boundaries, probing the shifting edge between subjective experience, physical embodiment, and the two-dimensional image as an object hovering between material and immaterial states.
