KUOW’s Jeremy Richards joined Jesse during one of his group painting
sessions to find out what inspired his transformation.”
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Smithsonian Exhibition: Revealing Culture
Having working with some of the biggest rock bands in the world, Jesse Higman's recent highlights include winning Seattle Arts Best of Artwalk Award, exhibiting works at the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in June 2011, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC in 2010, receiving the 2009 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award for outstanding visual artist, creating the new album cover for Heart's Red Velvet Car, a recent feature on King 5 Seattle’s Evening Magazine, and an appearance on Seattle's Art Zone with Nancy Guppy.
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Fri Nov. 5, 2010 ‘Primal Symphony’ Illuvium Video Projections
This is composer Mateo Massina’s 13th annual benefit for Children’s Hospital.
I will have two video pieces projecting above the Symphony in Beneroya Hall.
This was
one of three videos projected last year.
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PHOTOS
Higman shared his painting techniques on his largest Wave Table and invited others to work with him in the gallery space. Playing on a large mix of DJ sounds, pigments and neighborhood elements, this event composed a "Relational Azimuth," as Higman calls it, "triangulating our positions with the material." Cameras recorded both macro and micro footage.

"Because people are pouring a liquid, they can feel the energy they are expressing in their individual gestures. They see what shapes that makes and how it interacts with what the other people are doing. Looking at these compositions together creates a sense of collaboration and neighborliness, which goes hand-in-hand with democracy and compromise." ~Jesse Higman

From June 2010 Smithsonian show Revealing Culture: "Higman's work, with its communitarian and convivial ethos, exhibits many of the tendencies associated with Relational Aesthetics, a theory of art practices that takes the whole of human relations and social context into consideration as a point of departure for the production and presentation of the work of art." ~Leanne Mella

January’s Blitz: Capitol Hill Arts Walk 2011
Interview starts at 00:58 mark
Art Zone with Nancy Guppy. January, 2011
--Video expandable to full screen HD.
-- Painting in the studio
-- Painting with other people
-- The Spiral Painting.
-- illuvium paintings
-- Mayor's video profile of my art
-- Makng Of Heart Album Cover
-- Scale and Size
-- Northwest Symphony Macro Video
-- Webpage of Rock Art
-- Headbanger's Ball interview '93
-- Artist statement
-- Resume
-- Bio Photos

-- Contact
-- 51 Photographs
-- Bio Photos
-- Mayor's Arts Awards on Flickr