Jessica Mia Vito

Jessica Mia Vito is an adjunct professor of Drawing at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, OH. She often teaches Figure Drawing in the Continuing Education Department for the Cleveland Institute of Art. She was an Adjunct Professor of Painting at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. She was an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. 

Vito is an emerging artist specializing in both traditional and contemporary methodologies. She attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale where she received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Bowling Green State University with a major in 2D Painting and Drawing and a minor in Fine Arts Instruction. At BGSU, Vito studied under Dennis Wojtkiewicz and later became his studio assistant. Vito studied at the New York Academy of Art in New York, NY. with Alyssa Monks and at the Atelier Neo-Medici in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France with Gregory Pelizarri. Presently, Vito is represented by Sugarlift Gallery in NYC and has been previously represented by Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago, IL. 

Artist Statement:

Beauty and sensuality are the most elusive subjects to me. The pursuit of beauty mixed with the dissonance my own mortality drives me to paint. I examine the fine line between allure and darker undertones. The curvaceous quality of the forms in my paintings are representative of womanhood. Each oil painting is energized by my life and specific emotions I am feeling at the time. Color relationships and compositional movement are exciting to me and are topics I explore often. The visual content of my work includes drapery, the human figure, portraiture, and still life. My work is influenced by both traditional realism and contemporary color field abstraction. Some painters I am inspired by are William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Mark Rothko.