Jessica Mongeon
Jessica Mongeon is a visual artist whose acrylic and watercolor paintings explore the connections and visual similarities between humans and nature. For example, a branching fractal pattern can be found in human veins, neurons, tree branches, river deltas, and lichen. Her recent work is inspired by motherhood and pregnancy. Images of placentas, umbilical cords, and mammary glands are camouflaged with flowers, lichen, mosses, and mushrooms. Jessica was born in Rolette, North Dakota and currently lives in Russellville, Arkansas with her spouse and two children. She works as an Associate Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at Arkansas Tech University. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Montana State University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota. Artist residencies that she has attended include Vermont Studio Center, the Anderson Center at Tower View, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Jessica has shown her artwork nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York, NY, and 203 Art Gallery, Shanghai, China.
