Art Opening | Jessica Rohrer: Overlooked

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Jessica Rohrer: Overlooked 

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 5 - 8 PM 

On view: March 7 - April 18, 2026

Nick Ryan Gallery presents Overlooked, a solo exhibition by New Jersey–based painter Jessica Rohrer. Spanning both floors of the gallery, the exhibition features oil paintings on panel and canvas alongside gouaches and ink drawings on paper. 

Overlooked marks Rohrer’s first solo exhibition in Colorado, and we are honored to introduce her work to the region through this expansive presentation. Rohrer holds an MFA in Painting from the Yale University School of Art and a BA from Northwestern University, and completed post-graduate work at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded multiple residencies, including Yaddo, Wave Hill, and the Guttenberg Space and Time Residency. 

Her work is held in numerous private collections and has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums across the United States, including P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York. She has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Art in America, and The New Yorker. 

For more than a decade, the source material for her paintings has been the homes and neighborhoods she has inhabited, from her birthplace in Wisconsin to her current community. 

Her recent work draws from drone photography, using aerial views of residential landscapes to examine representation, public versus private space, identity, memory, and the impulse to control one’s surrounding environment. Often labor-intensive, the paintings reflect a meticulous and exacting approach to image-making.