Up next at Pastine Projects, we’re honored to host Jessica Snow’s second solo exhibition—a vibrant continuation of her evolving dialogue with abstraction. Over the past four years, she has immersed herself in the culture, history, and geography of Greece, spending her summers on Crete, Kefalonia, and most recently Paros. The experience has yielded work that brims with sweeping color and sensual movement, always keyed to an evocation of the natural world. The newest paintings extend that immersion further, making the Aegean Sea itself a collaborator. Dipped directly into the water, the canvases absorb the sea as material and metaphor—its salt, its currents, its timeworn force. 
This past summer, after encountering Byzantine mosaics in Thessaloniki and beyond, Snow recognized how her own abrupt, patterned strokes tessellated across the canvas, echoing both the glinting surfaces of mosaic and the shimmer of sun-struck water ruffled by wind. She has come to describe this process as en plein mer—painting the sea—where ritual and method entwine: The sea participates in creation, while the artist bears witness, attuning to the water’s pulse.

Snows’s gestural language and personal iconography take root in the natural world and thread through the work— they surge with energy, pressing against their frames as if resisting containment. The resulting work reads as liquid color fields—elemental, luminous—resonant with sea and sand, tide and sunlight. In their rhythms, we sense tides and cycles, the sun-drenched beauty of the Aegean transformed into a meditation—half physical, half spiritual—on the nature of being.

Additionally, the gallery will present two bodies of work on paper: one inspired by the poetic evocations of dawn in the Odyssey, and the other a series of nocturnal landscapes shaped by life on the bay—attuned to the tides, the moon, and the rhythms of winter rain.