Jessica Tampas

Jessica Tampas has had a camera in her hand from the time she was 14 years old, and she reckons that she spent a full two years in the darkrooom of her high school (the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY) before she was 18. Later, Tampas attended Mills College where she worked closely with Catherine Wagner, learning about the elegiac and poetic potential of the medium; she went on to study with Nicholas Nixon, Abelardo Morell, and Shelby Lee Adams at the Massachusetts College of Art where she got her MFA. In addition to pursuing her own fine art, today she earns her living by her camera, working full-time in her own thriving commercial concern.

Jessica has photographed the Dalai Lama and Tibetan refugees (both in the U.S. India and Nepal); taught at Emerson College; completed a Ragdale Foundation Residency, and has exhibited at Ryerson Woods Gallery in Chicago, Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, and Arbor3 Arts gallery. Much of her work takes family, children, and landscape as it’s apparent subject matter ; that said, considerably more difficult issues like death, loss, vulnerability, and the inexorable passage of the seasons shimmer not far below the surface.

Jessica lives in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.

For pricing and availability please email us at lisa@arbor3arts.com

Janis Kanter