About the Artist
Jesselle Sue is an Asian-American abstract artist whose practice merges the sensibility of Eastern aesthetics with the material language of contemporary painting.
Her works prioritize breath, interval, and the poetics of incompletion.
Negative space functions not as absence, but as presence —
a field where color, ink, and texture continue to speak after the brush is lifted.
Her surfaces evolve through natural cracking, organic flow, and unforced accumulation of pigment,
reflecting philosophies of impermanence, quietness, and becoming.
Rather than finishing a painting, she permits it to grow.
【Artist Statement 】
My work grows from my perception of Eastern culture—
a sense of restraint, stillness, and movement,
a rhythm that breathes without speaking.
I paint with thick textures, palette knives, and natural cracking,
allowing pigment to spread as if it were growing of its own will.
I do not force direction; I coexist with the material—listening, waiting.
The breathing quality of Eastern liubai (negative space) informs my work.
Soft tones, faint ink marks, and quiet gaps on the canvas
all echo the aesthetics of traditional ink painting.
Space invites air to enter.
Pale colors slow the rhythm.
A drop of ink falls like the sound of time—
subtle, but enduring.
My colors are rooted in Eastern landscapes:
Green like pine needles and the whisper of grass,
Gold like fire, like light, like a burning sunset,
Ochre like earth, like mountain grain,
Ivory like mist and water,
Ink like time itself.
For me, painting is not about occupying the canvas,
but about allowing nature to occur.
Flows, cracks, unexpected marks—I do not correct them.
In Eastern aesthetics, the broken, the incomplete, the accidental
are alive in their own quiet beauty.
My works are not finished—they are allowed to grow.
I stand beside them, watching color find its own place,
watching wind, soil, mist, and time settle slowly into the surface.
If you find calm, strength, or an unnamed emotion within them,
that is their truest meaning—
and the space I wish to offer the viewer.
【CV】
【GROP EXHIBTIONS】
2023 Bay Area Council‘s 13th Spring Festival Celebration, Klamath Pier 9, San Francisco
2022 Art in Florence, Galleria360 Arte Comtemporanea Gallery, Florence
Interconection and Intuition, Agora Gallery, Chealse, New York
Rendezvous, Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 Artful Giving, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco
【ART FAIR】
2022 Paris Expo 8th,1 Place De LA Porte De Versailles, Paris
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【PRESS】
2022 Vogue, Vogue‘s Gallery, January
2022 The world of Interiors, Artistic Impressions, January
2021 The world of Interiors, Artistic Impressions, November
2021 The world of Interiors, 40th Anniversary Special Artistic Impressions, December
