Artist Sightings
This is the first of many impromptu artist sightings. Instead of being considered a thorough review of an exhibition or body of work, it is an intimate and more casual recognition of art and the artist.
An artist sighting was made at Espresso Royale Cafe located at 286 Newbury Street in Boston. The paintings of Jessica Liggero.
What caught my attention almost immediately was her still-life works of red peppers. Their chiseled brightness and taut shadows captivated. It threw me back to the famed pepper photograph by black and white photographer Edward Weston. The essential beauty of a pepper, its shape and form, highlights and shadow. Why not worship the pepper?
Yet again there was another still life of boxes, highlighted in red. These intrigued me. Possibly the red again set me off. The stern strokes of the painter provided a geometric expression of color and line. I even noticed on her website that she combined the red pepper with a box!
Jessica Liggero is a very talented painter and should not be ignored. View her work at Jessica Liggero.
I found a great youtube video of Jessica where you can see her describe her art and the three pepper painting:
Jessica Liggero interview
Very nice. I suggest you set up a forum, so that we can talk and communicate.