Oddly enough Jessicka and I went to the same high school in Florida but we only recently met in Los Angeles. It was fate that I'd be the first person to exhibit her work in my show. For the past 16 years she's been a full time successful musician fronting the bands Scarling. and Jack Off Jill touring the US and the UK several times over. It was not until she took a break last year to get married that she was able to devote time to her first passion painting. Influenced by the absurd, noise rock, culinary delights, John Waters and Goth and gay iconography, she paints in a number of mediums. Her anthropomorphic baked goods seem to posess a childlike innocence with a glimpse of fear in their eyes of inevitably being devoured by those who gaze upon them.

Daniel Franzese - depARTed! curator