Faculty: Frederick A. Jesser IV
Fred Jesser received a Master of Fine Arts degree with a focus on painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. While in Savannah, Jesser served as a Preparator for the Telfair Museum of Art and an Exhibition Designer for the Savannah College of Art and Design Exhibitions department before serving as Thesis Coordinator and Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at SCAD exhibitions. Fred also served as Professor of Foundations at SCAD from 2004 until coming to Marietta College.
Fred’s work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, been featured in New American Paintings (Volumes 40, 52), been published alongside his short stories in Drain Mag Journal of Contemporary Society and is currently represented by Lyons-Wier Ortt Contemporary Art located in the Chelsea art district of New York, NY.
Fred recurrently works within a variety of practices and media allowing work to range from site-specific, ephemeral, time-based pieces to painting, intaglio, sculpture, ink and watercolor drawings, earthworks and audio recording depending on how different concepts need to be addressed.
Artists of influence
Craig Drennen, Al Hansen and all the Fluxus folks, Ed Ruscha, Marcel Duchamp, Xu Bing, Takashi Murakama, Avantika Bawa, Andy Goldsworthy and Judy Pfaff, with whom Fred was fortunate enough to work alongside as an installation assistant during the construction of a site-specific exhibition in Savannah, GA.
Sample Work
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