News and Updates
February 3, 2012: Opening reception for Babyscapes at the Medicine Hat Cultural Centre. The show runs through Feb. 27 and includes 16 new collages from the first half of my sabbatical year.
January 26, 2012: Visiting Artist Talk at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. I will return here with my partner, artist-musician Dean Smale and our daughter Sofonisba for a residency this spring/summer.
October 31 - November 26, 2011: Two new collages are included in The Faculty Show at The Esplanade Art Center in Medicine Hat
October, 2011: I am the featured artist in the inaugural edition of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism
The first edition of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, includes a lovely essay about my work by Jodi Varon. Click title to read: Harmony and the Imagination: A Conversation with Jessica Plattner
Fall 2011: Visiting Artist at Medicine Hat College
Awarded sabbatical from EOU for academic year 2011-12. Invited to be Visiting Artist in Residence at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy for spring 2012; and invited to be Visiting Artist in Residence at Medicine Hat College School of Visual Communication in Alberta, Canada.
Jessica Plattner: Fact and Fancy, Solo exhibition at Common Sense Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Opening Reception: Sept. 10, 2010, 7:00 - 11:00 PM
Show runs Sept. 10 - Oct. 8, 2010
Summer 2010: Awarded Faculty Scholars Summer Stipend to complete paintings for solo show in Canada. Working in Medicine Hat, Alberrta.
“No New Tale to Tell” juried exhibition on narrative in contemporary art, opens Jan 20th at Claypool-Young Gallery at Morehead State University in Kentucky. Juror: Mike Deetsch
Offered solo exhibition at Common Sense Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada! Sept. 10 - Oct. 8, 2010
Autumn 2009: Joined the board of directors of the Union County Art and Culture Center
Summer 2009: Working in newly remodeled studio in my new house in La Grande, OR
Included in High Desert Journal’s Spring 2009 edition, p. 25 - 27, in a beautiful full-color 3-page spread
Solo exhibition: “Maternal Instincts: Portraits of Women in Oregon and Mexico” at Satellite Gallery, La Grande, OR, Nov. 14 - Dec. 5, 2008
EOU Colloquium Presentation, Thursday, Nov. 13, 4:00PM in Ackerman Hall 210 (refreshments provided at 3:30)
Nervous Laughter: 5-person group exhibition at phd gallery, St. Louis, MO, Sept. 2008:
Nervous laughter review:
Maternal Instincts review by Benjamin Pacheco Lopez in Mexico paper A.M.
Solo exhibition: Maternal Instincts / Instintos Maternales, at Galeria Jesus Gallardo, La Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, June 12 - July 4, 2008.
Catalogue essay by Alexis Salas.
Spring 2008: Awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Art at Eastern Oregon University.
October 2007: Selected by juror Peter Plagens as one of ten finalists for the 2008 Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award at Miami University of Ohio.
See the review of my show in Chiapas: http://www.diariodechiapas.com.mx/index.php?id=18263
My work is mentioned in Art in America, in an article on feminist group shows by Carey Lovelace titled "Girls, Girls, Girls" (Art in America, No. 6, June/July 2007, p. 91)
Solo exhibition: Suenos: June 23 - July 20, 2007, Galeria Studio Cerillo, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
February 2007: Awarded Traditional Fulbright Scholar Award to Mexico for winter/spring 2008
Solo exhibition: Indecision, April 3 - 28, 2007
FireHouse Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
February 24-26, 2007: Conference presentation at International Symposium of the Arts in Society at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Presentation title: "Indecision: Feminism, art, and the question of motherhood"
February 22-April 21, 2007: exhibition
"From the Inside Out: Feminist Art Then and Now," curated by Claudia Sbrissa
St. John's University, Queens NY
January 2007: Awarded a partial summer stipend from EOU Faculty Scholars Project for summer 2007
Project title: "Portraits of Women: Gender Roles, Tradition, and the Question of Motherhood"