Jessica Malatia

Jessica Malatia is a visual artist living in Evanston. Her focus is on painting, printmaking, and print illustration. Painting with acrylic gouache gives her pieces their signature vibrancy and flat texture, and she often employs palettes inspired by vintage advertising and grocery store packaging. She turns many of her paintings into giclee prints, greeting cards, and stickers.

Subject wise, Jessica’s work celebrates food. Her work explores food’s connection to memory, and she is fascinated by the emotional power of nostalgia. Drawing and painting these items is a method in which she both commemorates and preserves them; a way of solidifying the memories they hold. She prides herself on making art that feels sincere and hopes that the fondness she has for her subjects is palpable.

Jessica graduated from Loyola University Chicago, where she studied psychology, drawing, and painting. Her work has been shown at The Martin, Woman Made Gallery, and Ralph Arnold Gallery. On a larger scale, she painted a vending machine for the West Town lesbian bar Dorothy, a mural for Heyday Vintage Collective in Evanston, and a trio of three large scale paintings commissioned by an international tech company.

Email: jessica.malatia@gmail.com

Website: jessicamalatia.com/

Instagram: @paintedtravels

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