Jesse Mockrin
Jesse Mockrin (b. Silver Spring, MD, 1981) received her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego, in 2011, and her B.A. from Barnard College, New York, in 2003. In 2016 she had a major presentation at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and her work is also in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. Mockrin’s work has been covered extensively, appearing in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker, T Magazine, Modern Painters, Vogue, and Art Agenda, among others. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jesse Mockrin / Selected Works
Jesse Mockrin
Overmastered
2020
oil on cotton
Each: 49 x 34 in, Total: 65 x 102 in
Jesse Mockrin
Fallen
2020
oil on cotton
Each: 49" x 34" Total: 49" x 68"
Jesse Mockrin
The good bad woman
2020
oil on paper
30 1/4 x 23 in (76.83 x 58.42 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
Musicians
2020
oil on paper
12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in (31.75 x 23.50 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
Weep into my eyes
2018
oil on cotton
overall 52 x 72 in, (132.08 x 182.88 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
Between desire and dread
2019
oil on cotton
overall 62 x 86 in, (157.48 x 218.44 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
The touch of a stranger hand
2019
oil on cotton
40 1/2 x 28 in, (102.87 x 71.12 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
Before the ball
2016
oil on linen
37 x 25 in, (94 x 63.5 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
English Tea
2016
oil on linen
37 x 25 in, (94 x 63.5 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
The Honest Model
2016
oil on linen
62 x 43 in, (157 x 109 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
The Suitor's Visit
2016
oil on linen
37 x 25 in, (94 x 63.5 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
The Picnic
2016
oil on linen
52 x 36 in, (132 x 91 cm)
Jesse Mockrin
The Visit Received
2016
oil on linen
25 x 37 in, (63 x 93 cm)
X (JESSE MOCKRIN / ELSA SAHAL)
Installation View, X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation View, X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation view of Jesse Mockrin, Exploit, 2020 Oil on paper, (24 x 19 in) and Elsa Sahal, Lying with Clay, Glazed ceramic, (18 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in)
Installation View, X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation View, X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation view of Jesse Mockrin, Ruthless, 2020 Oil on paper, (Each: 21 7/16 x 14 3/4, Total: 26 7/16 x 29 1/2) and Elsa Sahal, Slippery Fairy 4, 2019, Glazed ceramic, (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 12 1/4 in)
Jesse Mockrin
Smitten
2020
oil on paper
12 3/16h x 9 1/16w in
Elsa Sahal
Slippery Hand 3 (Pink and Red)
2020
Glazed ceramic
18 1/2 x 13 x 15 in
Jesse Mockrin
Embrace
2020
oil on paper
Each: 29 7/16" x 21 11/16", Total: 36 7/16" x 43 3/8"
Elsa Sahal
Splash, Sex, and Sun
2020
Glazed ceramic
9 7/8 x 7 1/8 x 2 3/8 in
Jesse Mockrin
Ruthless
2020
Oil on paper
Each: 21 7/16" x 14 3/4", Total: 26 7/16" x 29 1/2"
Elsa Sahal
Slippery Hand 1 (Black and Red)
2020
Glazed ceramic
18 1/8 x 19 3/4 x 14 1/8 in
Jesse Mockrin
Yield
2020
Oil on cotton
26h x 18w in
Elsa Sahal
Slippery Fairy 3
2019
Glazed ceramic
17 3/8 x 16 7/8 x 9 7/8 in
Elsa Sahal
Slippery Hand 2 (Pink and Golden Nails)
2020
Glazed ceramic
20 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
Jesse Mockrin
Fallen
2020
oil on cotton
Each: 49" x 34" Total: 49" x 68"
Elsa Sahal
Slippery Fairy 4
2019
Glazed ceramic
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 12 1/4 in
Jesse Mockrin
Overmastered
2020
oil on cotton
Each: 49 x 34 in, Total: 65 x 102 in
Installation View of X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation View, X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation view of Jesse Mockrin, Seduced, 2020, Oil on paper (16 1/8h x 12 3/16w in) and Elsa Sahal, Slippery Hand 1 (Black and Red), 2020, 18 1/8 x 19 3/4 x 14 1/8 in
Installation view of Jesse Mockrin, Yield, 2020, Oil on cotton (26h x 18w in) and Elsa Sahal, Splash, Sex, and Sun, 2020 (9 7/8 x 7 1/8 x 2 3/8 in)
nstallation view of Jesse Mockrin, Fallen, 2020, Oil on cotton (Each: 49 x 34 in, Total: 98 x 34 in) and Elsa Sahal, Slippery Fairy 3, 2019, Glazed ceramic (17 3/8 x 16 7/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Installation view of X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
Installation view of Jesse Mockrin, Overmastered, 2020, Oil on cotton (Each: 49 x 34 in, Total: 65 x 102 in) and Elsa Sahal Fingers Crossed, 2020 (22 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 10 5/8 in)
Jesse Mockrin Exhibitions
X (Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal)
January 12 - February 20
View ExhibitionWon't You Be My Neighbor
October 28 - December 31
View Exhibition
Jesse Mockrin
The marks of a stranger
September 13 - October 27, 2019
View Exhibition
JESSE MOCKRIN
Pleasures of the Dance
November 2 - December 18, 2016
View ExhibitionPress
- Mary Lynne Buchanan, Jesse Mockrin and Elsa Sahal at Nathalie Karg Gallery, January 2021
- Harper's Bazaar Art, myselves The Fragment and the Whole, October 2020
- Artsy, 10 In-Demand Works on Artsy This Week, September 2020
- Document, 'myselves': 4 artists on interpreting the body in the age of pandemic, September 2020
- Artsy, Jesse Mockrin 10 In-Demand Works on Artsy This Week, August 2020
- Vogue, Jesse Mockrin Paints Billie Eilish in the Style of Caravaggio for Vogue, February 2020
- Whitehot Magazine, Paul Laster, 27 Must-See Artworks at Artissima 2019, October 2019
- New York Times, New York Galleries, What to See Right Now, October 2019
- Artsy, What Makes a Figurative Painting Good?, April 2019
- Vogue, Dodie Kazanjian, As Frieze Los Angeles Opens, Three Young California Artists Are Reinventing What Figurative Painting Can Be, February 2019
- Juxtapoz, Greek Mythology Explored In Beautiful Show by Jesse Mockrin @ Night Gallery, LA, January 2019
- Art in America, Travis Diehl, Jesse Mockrin, February 2019
- KCRW, Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery and Taylor Mac at UCLA, December 2018
- Alphasixty, In the Studio with Jesse Mockrin, February2018
- Rage, Joel Martens, Engender: The Subjectivity of Male and Female, 2017
- Whitewall, Katy Donoghue, Beyond Binary, 2017
- Untitled, Adam Lehrer, Engender at Kohn Gallery, 2017
- Artillery Magazine, Ezrah Jean Black, Engender, 2017
- Artsy, Andrew Nunes, 10 Established Artists Remember Their First-Ever Sales, 2017
- Document, Kibum Kim, "XOXO" by Jesse Mockrin, 2017
- Art And Cake, Eve Wood, Engender at Michael Kohn Gallery, 2017
- The Culture Trip, Alexia Wulff, Up-And-Coming Contemporary Artists From The US, 2016
- Artsy, Casey Lesser, 15 New York Gallery Shows You Need to See This November, 2016
- Artsy, Casey Lesser, These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward, 2016
- Artsy, 30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Spring, 2016
- The New York Times Style Magazine, Kat Herriman, One Young Artist's 21st-Century Baroque, 2016
- Artsy, Maxwell Williams, Jesse Mockrin's Cropped Rococo Paintings Break the Spell of Art History, 2016
- VICE, Alyssa Buffenstein, Neo-Rococo Arrives in Jesse Mockrin's Paintings, 2016
- Blouin Modern Painters, Entering the Forest: Jesse Mockrin Shares Her Sources, 2016
- Artillery Magazine, Leanna Robinson, Jesse Mockrin, 2016
- Forbes, Anne Binlot, Jesse Mockrin Recalls the Rococo Period At Night Gallery, 2016
- Artforum, Meg Whiteford, Jesse Mockrin, 2016
- KCRW, Hunter Drohokowska-Philip, Art Talk: New Art Downtown and at Barker Hanger, 2014
Publications
Jesse Mockrin / Elsa SahalX
Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present ‘X’, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Jesse Mockrin and Elsa Sahal. ‘X’ frames a conversation between two mid-career artists, each immersed in her own philosophical, thematic and technical trajectories, who nonetheless find numerous points of dialog and exchange. ‘X’ might variously be understood as an intersection, […]
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Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present The marks of a stranger, a show of new work by Jesse Mockrin. In her second exhibition with the gallery, she continues her deep dive into the mythos enveloping culture and consciousness. The ideas and impulses that play out in her work seem to unfold in that fraught space where […]
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