Jessica L. Sims
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, 2005
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Holderness Scholarship
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking Dept, 2002
Virginia Commonwealth University, Summa Cum Laude
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
SOLO
2016 So The Story Goes, Jane Sandelin Gallery, Art Works, Richmond, VA
2015 A Chesterfield Landscape, Marilyn Foley Gallery, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL
2013 Maybe This Time, Main Gallery, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2012 Channelsurfing, Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, Main Branch
2011 Back to Bexwood, Francis Gallery, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2009 A History Report, Not a Future Report, Skylight Gallery, Art Works, Richmond, VA
2008 A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That, Frable & Helena Davis Galleries, artspace
2007 Everybody, Dance Now, Dooley Foyer, Richmond Public Library, Main Branch
2005 564 Days, Ellenburg & Shaffer Glass Art Studio, Greensboro, NC
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
GROUP
2016 Emerging IV: Rawls Museum Arts Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Juror Amie Oliver, Courtland, VA
2014 Exquisite Abnormalities, with Dana Frostick, Dee Glazer & Roman Zelgatas, artspace, Richmond, VA
2013 ThinkSmall7, artspace, Richmond, VA
2013 artspace @ the Weinstein Jewish Community Center, Francis Gallery, Richmond, VA
2012 National Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Best in Show, Juror Marcy Rosenblat, Courtland, VA
2010 Gallery 45, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2009 radius250 2009, artspace, Juror Marlene Rothaker, Richmond, VA
2005 radius250 2005, artspace, Juror John Ravenal, Richmond, VA
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Present - 2006 artspace, Richmond, VA
President (2011-Present), Vice President (2008-2011), Co-Chair Exhibitions (2008-2010)
COLLECTIONS
The Weaver Foundation
Tiller Law Firm
PRESS
"Maybe This Time" reviewed by Vittorio Colaizzi, Assistant Professor, Dept of Art,
Old Dominion University, Tidewater News, November 2013