Figure/Ground/Rocks

A General Conversation with Jessica Zawadowicz

This piece is the first of many in what will ideally be a new text based revisiting of my series General Conversations in which I have a conversation with an artist about their work and their thoughts and produce something in its wake for them. I’m very excited to present the first of these in which I interviewed the artist Jessica Zawadowicz in her studio, amongst her work. We talked about rocks and sports and figure-ground and things and grammars and relationships. This work springs explicitly from this conversation while bringing my own thoughts to bear, not upon, but ideally with the work and ideas of the artist. I hope, as I hope with other entries into this series that it does justice to the artist as they are operating in the world, and entices you to enter into the conversation this artist provides us with through their work.