Frieze LA 2024
Jesse Schlesinger
M. 04, 2024
Redwood (salvaged) and enamel paint
42 x 42 x 5 inches
106.7 x 106.7 x 12.7 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Pacific Transit, 2024
Concrete, stone and bronze
Site-specific artwork commissioned by the City and County of San Francisco through the San Francisco Arts Commission
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2023
Redwood (salvaged), cord, poplar, conversion varnish, chrome-plated steel, and glazed ceramic
78 x 30 x 30 inches
198.1 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Lay down these words, Before your mind like rocks., 2025
Glazed ceramic, redwood (salvaged), and stone
27 x 14 x 19 inches
68.6 x 35.6 x 48.3 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2024
Whetstone ceramic and gum arabic on sandpaper
Framed Dimensions:
37 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches
95.9 x 80.6 x 4.4 cm
Paper Dimensions:
36 x 30 inches
91.4 x 76.2 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
ants and pebble In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek washed stone Granite: ingrained., 2025
Redwood (salvaged), granite and steel
47 x 55 x 18 inches
119.4 x 139.7 x 45.7 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled (c. o.), 2023
Redwood (salvaged)
32 1/2 x 46 x 46 inches
82.5 x 116.8 x 116.8 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall, 2024
Glazed ceramic and acacia (salvaged)
20 x 12 x 12 inches
50.8 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go., 2025
Glazed ceramic, cypress, painted MDF cube, and chrome-plated sphere
53 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches
135.3 x 38.7 x 38.7 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2023
Redwood (salvaged)
17 5/8 x 7 x 17 3/8 inches
44.8 x 17.8 x 44.1 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2024
Bronze and enamel paint
13 x 17 x 17 inches
33 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2025
Glazed ceramic
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
21.6 x 21.6 x 4.4 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Cobble of milky way, straying planets,, 2025
Redwood (salvaged), glazed ceramic, and granite
33 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
85.1 x 34.3 x 34.3 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
riprap of things., 2024
Redwood (salvaged)
18 x 19 x 24 inches
45.7 x 48.3 x 61 cm
Jesse Schlesinger
Untitled, 2025
Glazed ceramic
15 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches
38.7 x 38.7 x 3.8 cm
“Working in a variety of media — site-specific installation, sculpture, drawing, built environment — Schlesinger creates works that are consistently imbued with a light, poignant touch and are rooted in exploring the ideas of home, ritual and space.”
- Leslie Williamson, New York Times Magazine
Photo of artist Jesse Schlesinger in his studio by Ekaterina Izmestieva
Jesse Schlesinger (b. 1979, Kentucky) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who lives and works in San Francisco working in sculpture, site-specific installation, drawing, and photography. His work is fundamentally concerned with place: how the natural environment, architectural context and engagement, and historical precedent contribute to experience and understanding. Labor and craft are key elements of his practice. Inherent in this work is a reverence for material reflected in the process. His upbringing as a second-generation carpenter (with a focus on traditional craftsmanship) and long-term involvement with a small farm have jointly influenced the philosophy of his work.
Schlesinger received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2008. Schlesinger has exhibited widely both domestically and internationally including exhibitions at 6018 North, Chicago, IL; Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Colpa Press, San Francisco, CA; Curator’s Cube, Tokyo, Japan; Eleanor Harwood, San Francisco, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA; Gallery 200/Minnesota St Project, San Francisco, CA; Gallery Hiroo Tokyo, Japan; Governor’s Mansion, Sacramento, CA; Kadist, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA; POP Gallery, Culver City, CA; Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA; San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA and Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan (postponed).
Schlesinger has had numerous residencies both domestically and internationally, including Think Green Produce, Tokyo, Japan, 2013; 6018 North, Chicago, IL, 2012 and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2012. Public Art Commissions/Awards include N-Judah Public Artwork (to be completed 2024), SFAC, San Francisco, CA; Minna Natoma Art Corridor Sculptures, San Francisco, CA, 2021; US-Japan Artists Exchange Fellowship, NEA and JUSFC, 2019-21; US-Japan Artists Exchange Fellowship, NEA and JUSFC, 2018-19; Everything Stays the Same and Everything Changes, Menlo Park Public Shore, CA, 2015; Welling, the Progress, San Francisco, CA, 2015; Studies for Temporary Monuments, Aster, San Francisco, CA, 2015 and SECA finalist, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
