Jessica Rohrer: Overlooked

About This Event

Nick Ryan Gallery presents Overlooked, a solo exhibition by New Jersey based painter Jessica Rohrer. Spanning both floors of the gallery, the exhibition features oil paintings on panel and canvas alongside gouaches and ink drawings on paper. Overlooked marks Rohrer’s first solo exhibition in Colorado, and we are honored to introduce her work to the region through this expansive presentation. For more than a decade the source material for Jessica Rohrer’s work has been her homes and neighborhoods, from her birthplace in Wisconsin to New Jersey, where she now lives and works. Her recent work is based on drone photography, using aerial views of neighborhoods to explore ideas of representation, public versus private space, identity, memory, and a desire to control our surrounding environment. Often labor intensive, the work reflects a meticulous and exacting approach to image-making. Rohrer holds an MFA in Painting from the Yale University School of Art and a BA from Northwestern University, and completed post-graduate work at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded multiple residencies, including Yaddo, Wave Hill, and the Guttenberg Space and Time Residency. Her work is in multiple private collections and has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including P·P·O·W. Gallery in New York. She has been reviewed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, and The New Yorker. Rohrer lives and works in New Jersey.