Our hope is that SHIITAKE can exist as both semi-opened and semi-closed. We wanted to create a project space that could offer continuity regardless of time, temperature, and contagions. SHIITAKE is unconditionally come-at-able.

For the inaugural exhibition, we are pleased to present work by Jessie Homer French.

Jessie Homer French (b. 1940, New York, New York) is a self-taught artist who routinely paints existential issues related to death, personal loss, climate change, and the enigmatic relationship humans have with nature.

While her anti-pastoral narratives depict creatures and landscapes undergoing trauma and transformation, the work offers a proposition that nature should endure, despite human interference.  Jessie Homer French addresses an interplay in which humanity appears as a problematic intruder in a melancholic natural environment.


2704 Beeville Street
Dallas, TX 75212


Coordinated by Jesse Morgan Barnett and Kevin Rubén Jacobs