Jessica Lee Ives
Bio
Jessica Lee Ives (née Jessica Stammen) (b. 1980) received her BFA from the Cooper Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art and her self-designed MA from New York University’s
Gallatin School.
While Jessica loves to paint, she loves sitting in the sun on a warm granite rock or jumping in
frigid wild waters even more. Her paintings are artifacts of the real life she lives with her
husband, Jonathan. Together they run up mountains and wade through rivers to fulfill their
innate human yearning for the natural world — and the natural world’s reciprocal yearning for
the human, fully embodied and alive. Jessica’s paintings take shape in her body first. Her studio
practice is simply disciplined and committed followthrough.
Jessica has studied anatomy, physiology, clinical massage and movement. She conducts
ongoing research into the new biology of water and the physics of living systems. Her studio is
located in Camden, Maine where she and her husband own and operate Making Movement, a
clinical massage practice.