Art Gallery: Jane Thorn and Jessie Mott

Runs through August 27

Join us for a night of artwork in our second and third-floor gallery spaces.

Learn more about the artists below:

Jane Thorn (She/Her) Artist Statement

Jane Thorn is a painter and writer exploring themes of transition, narrative, light, and reflection. Her deeply diaristic self-portraits are a fantasy and science-fiction steeped chapter in the autofictional tradition of Frida Kahlo, Paula Rego, and Sasha Gordon, and her moody and personal still-lifes and cityscapes evoke moments of stillness amidst change. Born in Nashville, Jane Thorn has lived in New Orleans, Wuhan, Portland, and Glasgow, and is currently based in Chicago. She holds a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Masters in Fine Art Practice from the Glasgow School of Art.

Jessie Mott (She/Her) Artist statement

Jessie Mott is a Chicago-based visual artist whose practice focuses on themes of identity and power by exposing unstable perceptions of the queer body. Using an array of media such as painting, drawing, and animation, she gives life to creatures that negotiate permeable boundaries. She is best known for her watercolor drawings of hybrid creatures that explore a perverse fascination with the natural world. Bound up in desire, mourning, and anxiety, her work disrupts the margins of human and animal, abstraction and figuration, and interior and exterior worlds.