About Jessica

Jessica Grindstaff is a NYC-based artist who has had numerous gallery showings in the NY area over the past ten years. She has also worked as an amateur entomologist, taught at an anarchist art school in Denmark, produced large-scale photo shoots, and most recently created a jewelry line of prize ribbons and medals.

Previously known for making haunting and meticulously constructed music box dioramas as well as wax and chalkboard paintings, Jessica recently branched out into the position of designer on two prominent new works of art.

In Fall 2006, Jessica completed the case artwork for the National Book Award nominee Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski and was the art director and interior set designer for the much acclaimed marionette play, The Fortune Teller by Erik Sanko. In the spring of 2007, she was a contributing artist to Ulrike Quade's The Wall performed at MASS MoCA, which she will tour with this fall in the Netherlands. In October 2007 she designed sets for the Kronos Quartet/Sanko collaboration, Dear Mme., at B.A.M. opening the 25th Anniversary of the Next Wave Festival as well as completing a set design for the play Speaking in Tongues produced by Crossways in Copenhagen.

Currently she designs a set for Ping Chong Company's The Devil and Daniel Webster and is in the preliminary stages of two new collaborations with Erik Sanko under the umbrella of their newly formed company, Phantom Limb. The first, a moving installation of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his journey to Antarctica and a new puppet piece on the tales of the Fortune Teller written by Lemony Snicket.