Known for virtuoso technique and a fascination with media images, Julia Jacquette makes paintings about wish fulfillment in a consumerist society.  Images mined from the internet, TV programs, movies, on the sides of buses, on the walls of subway stations, and magazine ads are distilled into paintings that are seductive yet tinged with a flavor of anxiety in the manufactured envy they evoke. A New York City-based artist, Jacquette's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and The RISD Museum among other institutions. Her work was included PS1's "Greater New York" exhibition, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. The recipient of a Pollack-Krasner grant, her most recent solo exhibition, "Water, Liquor, Hair," was at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York.

Thursday, March 7, 12:30pm
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Image: Cognac, 2011, Oil on linen, 76 x 93 inches