About

Philadelphia and New York based Installation artist Jessica Beckwith began her career in theater, studying at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in NYC and performing and directing regionally. Driven by a desire to encompass the viewer, she began exploring new ways of using media and light through immersive installations. 

Mentioned in the New York Times for her “mystical theater” in Wholeness, an installation for Portal / Governors Island Art Fair, Jessica’s projections and multi-media installations have been included in exhibitions both Nationally and Internationally— notably Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, The Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Performa 13, Portal:Governors Island Art Fair, Galleria Ca D'Oro, and Hodjapasha Cultural Center, Istanbul. 

In her work she explores the subtle unity between the observer and observed and ways in which perception and thought shape reality. By activating the senses through an elemental language of light, sound, collaged video projection and pulse she sets out to create a felt space of embodied knowledge and connection.

 Her work draws from Physics and the idea of light as a conduit for knowledge, energy, and healing. She is interested in eliciting and engaging in dialogue around how we think and produce knowledge and the interplay of consciousness and memory with the way we live in our bodies, our communities, and the planet.