The Work
In her art, Gomula-Kruzic explores the nature of the physical body and societal constraints with an enveloping visual style that places the viewer in the action—frequently as a complicit participant.…
Complicit Participants
Jessica Gomula-Kruzic’s Complicit Participants Jessica Gomula-Kruzic is subversive. In her artwork, she playfully introduces ideas. As a viewer, you follow her logic and new notions are revealed. She subtly…
Artist Talk at MARS
Artist talk at Media Arts Research Studio, Johnson State College, VT. 2010. This talk is going to be a little bit about evolution. Not just human evolution, but how…
Ten Things…
TEN THINGS ABOUT JESSICA GOMULA by Beaubourg 268 on Friday, August 27, 2010 at 7:04pm Nearly three months have passed since Beaubourg 268’s inaugural event This Ain’t A Happenin: Transient Acts &…
Essay from First Street Gallery
Excerpt from catalog essay. California State University Stanislaus Faculty Exchange Exhibition. First Street Gallery, Humboldt State University. 2010. In the art of Jessica Gomula, the Post-Modern hybridization of genre and style is…
Visions of Central Valley Culture
Panel Presentation: How the Building Imagination Center has helped cultivate cultural identity through art, film, and other expressions. The Search for Common Ground: Culture in California’s Central Valley. Visions of Central Valley Culture: Local Arts…
Playful Frictions
The Uncomfortable and Fascinating work of Jessica Gomula These days we seem to confront sex and sexual issues everywhere, even as we have many reasons to be uncomfortable with our…
Life Games [A Brief Essay]
You have just finished reading this brief essay on the work of Jessica Gomula. You have looked at the images that it addresses, crisply printed in the catalog that accompanies…
Collaborative Artworks and Decision Making
Artist talk. 2009. California State University. As an artist I explore the intimate and the sexual capacities of human nature, and its changing boundary of private and public expression. I…
Made in China
Six Artists in California The following is an excerpt from the catalog essay written by David Olivant for the 2006 exhibition “Made in China – Six Artists in California” at the Peter Scott…