AND: I regularly do commissions, so run your idea, size, colors, fish attitude (or simply
comments) by me and I'll happily do a drawing for you to consider.

PLEASE: If you like my work and this site, tell your friends on your social network of
choice. Send me your email address if you would like to be on my newsletter list and you
will be among the first to know about my latest work. Enjoy a peaceful holiday season and
a hopeful New Year. Best, Jesse.

CONTACT ME: jessehickman [@] gmail.com

It has been several years since my last profundity, so an updated written inventory of
myself would be a good thing. I'm quite a few pages into a new chapter in my life in which I'm enjoying a new perspective on both my work and my life. Still as I’ve said in the past, I just try stuff with my work, usually rather fearlessly in utmost confidence that I'll figure it out, or that I won't. My most important principle remains intact that for me it's about dumb fun. Gratefully these days it's even funner and dumber. In my 35 years of art-making I've had a fair share of critical and public acclaim. I'll list a handful of it that looks good in
print at the end of this. What is most gratifying to me is that I have an unrestrained
passion for what I do, and that I get to do it. I'm often excited to get into my studio every
day to, basically play. When I'm finished with pieces, I love sending them out into the
world for you to give them their next chapters in their lives. For my work to perhaps make
you chuckle, or to cause you to think, or to wonder "what the hell was he thinking when
he made this?" or simply to give you a little half-cocked smile as you pass it by. Mostly I
hope that what I make inspires you in some way. That would be the greatest gift to me.
I'm just a spoke in this wheel that we're all on and we're all in it together. Without you I
wouldn't have the privilege to be able to do what I do. So, thank you.

As I promised: street cred. My work has been exhibited in over 70 solo and group
exhibitions at various museums and galleries including the American Visionary Art Museum,
the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, the Smart Museum, the Laguna
Gloria Art Museum, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Bemis Foundation, the Chicago Cultural
Center, the Rose Art Museum, the Renaissance Society, and the Newport Harbor Art
Museum. My work has been featured in the media eighty plus times including books,
museum catalogs, magazines, the front page of the Wall Street Journal and fifteen minutes
of fame on HGTV. I'm fortunate to have work in permanent collections of the American Folk
Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smart Museum, the Rose Art museum,
World Bank, the Discovery Channel, Champion International, Hewlett Packard, the
collections of Dennis Adrian, Hank and Gilda Bookbinder, Jeremy Irons, Leonard Nemoy,
Vicky Lawrence and many others, perhaps you. I have been awarded a handful of grants
including a generous Pollack Krasner Foundation grant. All this and four bucks will buy me a
cup of coffee. These accolades are not why I make art. I make art because I have to.


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