About

(b. Omaha, NE, 1987) Jess Machacek produces domestic objects, paintings and installations to propose notions of nature constructed by irony and familiarity. Her sculptural work plays with ideas of scale, modularity, and pattern in reference to artifacts blurred by modernism, industry, and applications of commercial color. She received an MFA in Studio Art (University of Georgia, 2015) and BFA in Printmaking (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011). 

Machacek is currently a Visiting Artist and Scholar at Columbus State University (GA) and working collaboratively through HyperCultural Passengers Connectivity Tables Project (DE). Previous residencies include Vermont Studio Center (VT), The Wassaic Project (NY), Frans Masereel Centrum (BE), and The Santa Reparata International School of Art (IT). She has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, and is currently based in Athens (GA) teaching at The University of Georgia.