Jessie Horning has taught printmaking, drawing, and art history classes at Ohio State University, Columbus College of Art and Design, and Capital University. She currently works as Assistant Professor of Teaching, the Area Coordinator, and Shop Technician in the Printmaking Area in the Department of Art at OSU.
In 2011 She earned her BFA in Printmaking from Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, then worked as the Teaching Assistant of Printmaking at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She completed her MFA in Printmaking at Ohio State University in 2017. Horning is committed to utilizing printmaking practices that are sustainable for the health of the artist and the environment. Her interest in sustainability was sparked by her experience working at an organic garden where she became attuned to the complexity and fragility of organic ecological systems.
As an artist and printmaker, Horning explores the tension and harmony between analog and digital printmaking processes:
In my work, paper functions as a collection space for marks inspired by the iconography of my personal photo archives, as well as the digital interfaces of the screens that I navigate to access these images. My drawings reference imagery made by hand, camera, and computer, prompting the viewer to consider the type of image that is produced when visual elements from disparate types of viewing experiences exist within the same space.
I perceive the digital screens of my laptop and phone as paradoxes; these screens are portals to information and people that allow me to be emotionally connected while being physically detached. My work in the studio is the opposite of this type of interaction; it is tangible, tactile, and direct. Actions in my studio practice involve drawing, printing, cutting, and arranging. I use drawing and printmaking processes to extract and translate intangible images from my digital photo archives into the tangible materials of ink, graphite, and paper. Being online feels like inhabiting boundless space, but my prints and drawings have clearly defined edges, and they eventually reach a point where they are finished and can be set aside.