Jessica Straus - February 2022

A native of New Hampshire, Jessica Straus lives in the Boston area. Straus works primarily in wood and mixed media, and has most recently been creating site-specific, large scale installations. Inventiveness, humor and narrative are key elements of her sculpture. She is a passionate follower of Outsider Art and writes about her field research on the subject on her blog, “Quirk”.

Straus headed the Visual Arts Department at Concord Academy where she taught Sculpture and Drawing for over two decades. Straus has exhibited her work at numerous venues including Addison Gallery of American Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Fuller Craft Museum, Danforth Art Museum, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, DeCordova Museum, Brattleboro Museum, Ohio Sculpture Center, Qorikancha Museum of Peru, and ArtTerritoire in Normandy, France.Her work is in the collections of DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Fuller Craft Museum, the Art Complex Museum, and numerous private and corporate collections.