Jessica Mastrobuono​

          In traditional still life paintings, there exists an underlying exploration of the transient nature of life. Most of the seemingly ordinary objects depicted in them are meant to symbolize ideas within the composition. Often, flowers, fruit and insects are incorporated to represent decay within a piece.

          Many of my most recent works incorporate beetles. They are vibrant, lively and diverse, however, each one is dead and posed before being painted. By immersing beetles in still life paintings from the past these ideas are strengthened and become more obvious. They pose new questions and investigations into age-old questions regarding the quintessential aspects of the human experience.

          I am an artist living in upstate New York. I have achieved an AAS in Fine Arts and am currenty working towards my BFA. My development as an artist has been largley influenced by Existential philosophy and the notions surrounding that ideology. 

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