Jesse Lloyd Proebstel lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Artist Statement
Art is both a meditation and a compulsion for me. Ideas come to me in the early hours of the morning while I drift in and out of sleep. I think of it as solving a problem that doesn’t really exist or deciphering a barely audible language.
My father was a research and development engineer for an aerospace company during the height of the space race so I am naturally influenced by old fashioned technology and the past’s vision of what the future might look like. I enjoy playing with the visual aspects of science, mathematics and industrialism. I've also collected paper for over 20 years and have a great love of anything from the 19th century.
I work in layers using old paper, book pages, hand-typed letters, scraps of cardboard, pencil drawings, and house paint to create mixed media collages.
My father was a research and development engineer for an aerospace company during the height of the space race so I am naturally influenced by old fashioned technology and the past’s vision of what the future might look like. I enjoy playing with the visual aspects of science, mathematics and industrialism. I've also collected paper for over 20 years and have a great love of anything from the 19th century.
I work in layers using old paper, book pages, hand-typed letters, scraps of cardboard, pencil drawings, and house paint to create mixed media collages.
Jesse with his portrait collection
Curriculum Vitae
Past Exhibitions:
2017 Unity at Bemis - Art show to benefit Facing homelessness. August 4th -6th Bemis building 55 S. Atlantic St., Seattle WA
2016 Centennial Center Gallery - Summer Art Exhibit - Kent, WA
2016 "Beam me up" Gallery 110 6th annual juried exhibition - juror Melissa Feldman, faculty, Cornish College of the arts
2015 Centennial Center Gallery Kent, WA - shared show with Artist Christopher "Siege" James
2015 Kent Summer Art Exhibit - Centennial Gallery - June 3rd- August 31 (2nd place peoples choice award)
2015 Union Center for Healing Seattle, WA - Solo Show
2014 Centennial Center Gallery - Summer Art Exhibit - June 4 - August 29 - Kent, WA (Winner jury award, 2nd place peoples choice award))
Current Exhibition:
2017 10x10x10Tieton - Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton WA
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2017 Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. Opening Reception November 2nd 5PM.
Private collections held in Seattle, WA, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Vancouver, BC
2017 Juror for Kent, WA Summer Art Exhibit
2017 Unity at Bemis - Art show to benefit Facing homelessness. August 4th -6th Bemis building 55 S. Atlantic St., Seattle WA
2016 Centennial Center Gallery - Summer Art Exhibit - Kent, WA
2016 "Beam me up" Gallery 110 6th annual juried exhibition - juror Melissa Feldman, faculty, Cornish College of the arts
2015 Centennial Center Gallery Kent, WA - shared show with Artist Christopher "Siege" James
2015 Kent Summer Art Exhibit - Centennial Gallery - June 3rd- August 31 (2nd place peoples choice award)
2015 Union Center for Healing Seattle, WA - Solo Show
2014 Centennial Center Gallery - Summer Art Exhibit - June 4 - August 29 - Kent, WA (Winner jury award, 2nd place peoples choice award))
Current Exhibition:
2017 10x10x10Tieton - Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton WA
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2017 Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. Opening Reception November 2nd 5PM.
Private collections held in Seattle, WA, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Vancouver, BC
2017 Juror for Kent, WA Summer Art Exhibit