Jessie Edelman (b.1986 Milwaukee, WI) is a New York based painter who creates portals into dream interiors and landscapes. Her work explores a real and imagined sense of space and voyeurism. The paintings can be seen as windows, screens, film stills, or postcards, as their outside-looking-in framing creates a sense of distance and desire. Edelman draws from a mix of found images, her own photos and memories. The result is a non-specific but familiar synthesis of the everyday, light-filled architecture and longings for nature. Her work references Impression, Post-Impressionism and Post-War Abstraction. Her paintings, tinged with a bit of melancholy, are painterly, colorful and playful.
She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Invitations at ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), and Getaway at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York, NY) which was reviewed by Roberta Smith for The New York Times. She was featured in group exhibitions at DIMIN (New York, NY), ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Denny Dimin Gallery (New York & Hong Kong), 0.0 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Dirimart (Istanbul, Turkey), Bahamas Biennale (Detroit, MI), Anahita Art Gallery (Tehran, Iran), and Circuit 12 Contemporary (Dallas, TX). She has exhibited at art fairs in Seoul, Miami, Aspen, San Francisco and Kyoto. She has been reviewed or featured in The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Vogue, Vice, Brooklyn Magazine, Artnet News, and i-D Magazine.