About Jessica

Jessica Fontenot is an artist who draws and paints our everyday surroundings—buildings, trucks, overpasses—to reveal the inherent beauty of our world that we often ignore. She is curious about place in how it lives in our memory and emotions, and how every bit of our world holds a story.

Over the past 10 years, Jessica explored place and infrastructure through projects like One Year of Buildings, where she created a daily watercolor drawing of a building everyday for a year, and The Roadtrip Show, a 5-week, 5,000 mile journey through places of her past and present that spawned 60+ artworks.

In 2024, she traveled in Europe for over six months for her 200 Days project, drawing street scenes, monuments and everyday storefronts across seven countries and twelve cities.

Jessica lives in Taos, NM, where she continues to take photos from the driver’s seat and turn them into artworks.

See more of her work at: jessicafontenot.com