Jess Humphrey is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer living in Corning, NY.  After 20 years working as a fashion designer in NYC, she shifted her focus to making art full time in 2019.  Her collage work is surrealist, capturing alternate realities and dream states.  She is currently exploring collage, glass and how the two mediums intersect.

There is an intentional side and a subconscious side of Humphrey's work.  Intentionally, she puts shapes and colors together that feel satisfying and balanced.  On a subconscious level, her work explores ideas and issues around being a woman.  Recurring themes appear in Humphrey's work that a lot of girls + women experience, like conflicting feelings of wanting to be seen and wanting to be invisible, of masking strength in exchange for love and acceptance. She explores her own experience as a woman by playfully poking at masculine dominance while redefining femininity, questioning gender roles, and what happens when the concept of gender is removed completely.