Jessica Jackson Hutchins, 53, says her work comes “in nuggets.” These “nuggets”—fits of inspiration—are equally likely to manifest as battered old chairs and couches engulfed by humanoid ceramic sculptures as abstract paintings on paper and canvases knotted in needlepoint. They come as wearable ceramic feeding vessels, papier-mâché “prostheses,” and planes of fused glass standing two-stories high. New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz praised Hutchins’s “microcosmic colosseums” in 2015, and counted her “among the best artists working in America today.” Institutional support has been equally enthusiastic: Hutchins was a 2022 Guggenheim fellow and has work in the collections of the Whitney and MoMA.
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