2025 Senior Exhibition Artists 2025 Senior Exhibition Artists: Jessica Picanzo

About Jessica Picanzo

Jessica Picanzo is an artist from Brockton Massachusetts. She is working towards graduating with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from UMass Dartmouth after receiving her associates degree from Massasoit Community College. Jessica is a practicing mural artist with three public murals in Brockton, MA including “Buckle up Brockton”, one in Rockland, MA at the Rockland Garden center, one in Lynn, MA and four in Holbrook, MA. Jessica finds inspiration in nature, the overlooked, her personal experiences, and her friends and family.

Statement

Tweaking reality in my work allows a narrative to start in a familiar place but depart into a dream like atmosphere, leading the viewer into discovery and reflection. By altering formal elements in my environment, I’m able to represent a longing to connect with the natural world as well as the supernatural. Also influencing my work is a continuous struggle of working through grief and a presence of energies we don't see or fully understand.

My subject matter often exists where human activity and the natural world collide. I build my work intuitively and often the final result varies from the initial idea. Murals and large-scale works are a way I’m able to "dance" or physically engage with the paint to immerse the viewer in a world I create. Through my sculptural work I’m able to bring a visceral object into the world and express myself in a more embodied form. 

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Jessica Picanzo

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