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Jess Franks  Hartford, CT

'Stand Still'
Acrylic on canvas
'Light My Way'
Acrylic on canvas

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About Jess


Jess Franks is known for vibrant acrylic paintings that dance the line between realistic and abstracted. As a former magazine graphic designer by trade (including work for Greenville Magazine, South Carolina Magazine, and Mechanical Engineering Magazine), she has spent countless hours on her computer poring over photography. A few years ago she discovered that painting not only allows her to delve back into a more tactile world, but also to create scenes in radical colors that no photo could capture. She uses the familiar structures of the natural world around her to explore new palettes, resulting in paintings that are at once both unexpected yet accessible. Jess now maintains a full-time art studio.

In between paintings, Jess has spent much of her time researching how social media and online commerce can create communities and sustain artists through nontraditional avenues. She has found an incredibly interactive art-collecting community on Instagram and uses that platform as her primary location for studio updates and shop news. Jess has placed in multiple contests on Minted, including first and second place wins in the Minted X West Elm contests, and a third place win in the Minted X Domino contest.


Quick facts about Jess


Her prints are sold at Greenbox, Minted, Anthropologie, and WestElm.

Jess appears in the following Top 10 lists


'#Instagram'

'@Facebook'

'Connecticut'


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