Buy It NOW (or I will)! – Art Nerd Seattle Edition

Jessica Dolence is obsessed with the mythology of the ocean, and her two pieces at SOIL’s Surf and Turf are sexy, playful, Candy Land-versions of sea-meets-land. In her world, fish eggs nest cozily in foamy iridescent nests of pearls. Siren songs accompany the dance of mushrooms, roses, pearls, caviar, and coral.

Caviar Nursery ($850) is a digital inkjet print embroidered with sequins — the kind of piece that catches you during an art walk and doesn’t let go. The combination of digital printing and hand-applied sequins gives the work a material richness that reproductions can’t convey.

If video art is more your speed, Wet Land ($400, edition of 5) delivers. Goldfish swim through an undulating digital sea filled with ombré rainbow lily pads that look faintly like floating Pac-Man heads. The sea peels back to meet a field of grass, which in turn gets eaten by a hungry lawnmower. The sound design — harps and waves — lulls without being precious. Inkjet video still prints are available upon request.

Jessica Dolence, “Caviar Nursery”, Digital inkjet print and sequins, 2013

Installation shot of “Wet Land” at SOIL

Jessica Dolence, “Wet Land”, Digital animation, 2:10 min, 2013