Jan Marie Sessler

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Meet the Artist

Jan Marie Sessler has been living and working as an artist since 1993. She has exhibited in the U.S., Mexico, Austria and other countries, including Namibia at the U.S. Embassy in through the Art in Embassies Program. In Todos Santos, Jan Marie has exhibited with Galeria de Todos Santos and more recently with Galeria Militar. Her work is in permanent collections at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, the Ross Art Museum in Ohio and the Dayton Art Institute also in Ohio. In 2008 Jan was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York City. Other exhibitions include Work by Women at the Harwood Museum of Art; Taos Contemporary at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2012 and New Art / New Mexico at the Ross Art Museum/Ohio Wesleyan University 2014.

Sessler says of her work – I admire the softening and transforming effects of nature and often see beauty in the unnoticed. Through a primarily intuitive process in my work, I explore the mysteries of space, subtleties of color and touching the unknowable. The process of discovery along the way allows me to enter a meditative space where the unconscious and thought meet and interweave themselves.”
– Jan Marie Sessler