Jessica will be donating 15% of the proceeds from the sale of this piece to Beloved Asheville, supporting relief efforts for those impacted by the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.
Jessica Leitko Fields is an artist who graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She lives in Greenville, SC.
Show Title: The Overwhelm
This is the work I was in the midst of when my mother, Janice, passed unexpectedly. I had already been thinking about my experience of the “too muchness” of life. In all the good and bad ways. And then, after such a devastating loss, the overwhelming sense of absence was a stark contradiction and validation of that emotion. There is too much and yet, never enough.
Medium: Oil and cold-wax on canvas
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jessica will be donating 15% of the proceeds from the sale of this piece to Beloved Asheville, supporting relief efforts for those impacted by the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.
Jessica Leitko Fields is an artist who graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She lives in Greenville, SC.
Show Title: The Overwhelm
This is the work I was in the midst of when my mother, Janice, passed unexpectedly. I had already been thinking about my experience of the “too muchness” of life. In all the good and bad ways. And then, after such a devastating loss, the overwhelming sense of absence was a stark contradiction and validation of that emotion. There is too much and yet, never enough.