Jessica Eaton

She was born in 1977 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.[1][2] and received a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute.[3]

Eaton's photographs focus mostly on some of the basic elements of photography: light, color, and exposure. By manipulating these different aspects in her photos, Eaton is able to explore the different possibilities within photography.[4]

After moving from Vancouver to Toronto and then to Montreal, Eaton produced a career changing series of photos, "Cubes for Albers and LeWitt", for a show sponsored by Red Bull.[4] The series of images are a tribute to artists Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt, taking inspiration from their minimalist and abstract style. Eaton exploits the camera, as she calls it, by continuously taking multiple shots of a cube painted in different colors without winding the exposure. Unlike painting, the added layers of shots on the same piece of film brightens the colors in the pictures.[5][6][7] In some works she shoots only grey cubes and uses different color filters over the lens in order to expose the film.[8][9]

Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Hunter and Cook, BlackFlash, Pyramid Power and Lay Flat 02: Meta. One of her photographs was chosen for the cover of the March 2011 issue of ARTnews. Her work has been included in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States, as well as in South Korea, Amsterdam, and London.[3][10]

In 2011, Eaton received the Bright Spark Award from the Magenta Foundation.[11] She was awarded the prize for photography at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography in 2012.[12] In 2019, Eaton was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.[13]

Eaton's work is included in the permanent collections of:

• the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal,[14] and
• the National Gallery of Canada.[15]

• "Jessica Eaton - official site".
• Jessica Eaton - M+B website feature