Jessey Jansen Artist & Social Entrepreneur
Body of Work | Portfolio
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Cutaway
Graphic Portraiture
Layered Paper
New Series 2021
Made from layers of cut paper, meticulously designed, and arranged inside wooden shadowbox frames with a process focused on reduction, to cut away, to simplify, to pare down, to give the outside world an inscape of the mind.
Layered Paper
New Series 2021
Made from layers of cut paper, meticulously designed, and arranged inside wooden shadowbox frames with a process focused on reduction, to cut away, to simplify, to pare down, to give the outside world an inscape of the mind.
Isa & Nio
Sci-fi fantasy
Photography/Digital Collage
2020 - current
Scifi art series based off Isa and Nio, two female guardians that were once espers on earth, have matured beyond planetary existence into drifting cellular structures within the galaxy of Galliard.
Photography/Digital Collage
2020 - current
Scifi art series based off Isa and Nio, two female guardians that were once espers on earth, have matured beyond planetary existence into drifting cellular structures within the galaxy of Galliard.
Civil Sphere
Digital Sketchbook
Photography/Digital Collage
2017 - current
Perceptions through illustrated light combines my love of light photography, design and collage. This series was created in a time where I was away from my physical studio and only had access to my laptop and camera as my tools.
Photography/Digital Collage
2017 - current
Perceptions through illustrated light combines my love of light photography, design and collage. This series was created in a time where I was away from my physical studio and only had access to my laptop and camera as my tools.
The Paper People
Wall Sculpture
Paper Pulp Relief
2019 - 2021
Shredding much more than Victoria Secret magazines, the Paper People series casts a critical eye on topics such as climate change, human rights and pollution.
Paper Pulp Relief
2019 - 2021
Shredding much more than Victoria Secret magazines, the Paper People series casts a critical eye on topics such as climate change, human rights and pollution.
Voice of Maasai (redirect link)
Indie Music Label
Multimedia/Social Impact
2011- ongoing
Voice of Maasai started as a cross-cultural storytelling project and has evolved into a multimedia indie label that seeks to advance opportunities, crack stereotypes and build bridges of empowerment for Maasai youth.
Multimedia/Social Impact
2011- ongoing
Voice of Maasai started as a cross-cultural storytelling project and has evolved into a multimedia indie label that seeks to advance opportunities, crack stereotypes and build bridges of empowerment for Maasai youth.
The Social Portrait
Illustrative Portraiture
Gouache and ink on paper
2013 - 2019
Honoring benevolent woman of the world, debuted in celebration of Internationals Women's Day 2013
Gouache and ink on paper
2013 - 2019
Honoring benevolent woman of the world, debuted in celebration of Internationals Women's Day 2013
MyPOP
Civic
Beeswax, Oil, Collage on Wood
2006 -17
MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) outlines the stages and steps to moving out of the dysfunctional cycles of poverty.
Beeswax, Oil, Collage on Wood
2006 -17
MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) outlines the stages and steps to moving out of the dysfunctional cycles of poverty.
Sounds of Silence
Figure/Ambient
Beeswax, oil on Paper
2004 - 06
Sensory exploration of medium and environment. It is meant to offer the viewer a serene space in the midst of difficult times.
Beeswax, oil on Paper
2004 - 06
Sensory exploration of medium and environment. It is meant to offer the viewer a serene space in the midst of difficult times.
Design
For more than a decade, my work has received award recognition for creativity and innovative ideas in art & design for social responsibility.