Jada Messick

Abstraction is my means to express emotion. My passion is finding and utilizing abstracted forms from my everyday visual experiences. I employ various processes which are at times combined: Collaging found imagery from my surroundings from photos to canvas using acrylic paint, acrylic paint markers, texture mediums and abstracted designs. My second process is working intuitively. I create a visual idea of the emotions I go through while experiencing feelings of anxiety or internal energies. Conjoining forms, elements, texture and color achieve my process. Altering the organic process during production comes from feelings within. Content is revealed as I create.

Jada Messick is a painter born and living in Omaha, NE. She completed her bachelors of fine art from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2021. Messick has been exhibiting her work in the community since 2018 through local vending, group/regional shows, following up to her first solo exhibitions; I Should Probably Find A Therapist, October 2022 (Radial Art Center); I Still Haven’t Found a Therapist (Project Project) March 2023; This is My Therapy, October 2024 (Radial Art Center). Messick was commissioned to create three paintings to the Downtown Library Branch in 2023, serves as the mixed media mentor through Kent Bellows Mentoring program and is a residential painter and wood refinisher.