TRESSA JONES

My art practice and research are dedicated to visual communication through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. Broadly speaking, my creative research inspects humans' time perception and translates these experiences visually while addressing themes of loss, absence, and stewardship. As a new mother, I am observing my creative practice change with the days and months as my daughter grows. She has become a source of endless inspiration and my most recent collaborator.
Time manifests in print media through multiples, labor, and delayed satisfaction. The works are two and three-dimensional, functioning best when dictated by the space in which they exist. My visual vocabulary combines hand-drawn, appropriated, and digitally rendered images from my immediate surroundings, personal archives, and the Internet.

Tressa Jones is an artist and printmaker originally from Boston, MA, currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BS in Exercise Science from the University of Massachusetts, completed Post-Baccalaureate studies in Printmaking at New Mexico Highlands University, and earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. Her travels and creative research, which include residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Ålvik, Norway, the Lawrence Arts Center, KS, the Vermont Studio Center, and research on the landscape and Land Art of the American West, fuel her artistic investigation of time and its manifestations in the body, landscape, and built environment. Jones's studio practice is complemented by work at non-profit arts organizations and educational institutions. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Design at LaRoche University, manages the Printmaking Studios at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts & Media, and is raising an awesome toddler.