Jessica Brewer Prugh: I Have Ridden Superhighways and Believed the Billboard’s Promises

A virtual artist’s discussion is scheduled for Thursday, June 24, 2021, 7:00 PM. Please go to  https://perspectivegallery.org/, to register for the artist discussion.

Jessica Brewer Prugh’s new body of work titled, I Have Ridden Superhighways and Believed the Billboard’s Promises, consists of two large photo collages. According to Prugh, the title of the show is taken from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem, Autobiography. After a year of taking very few photographs and even fewer trips, Prugh explains that she found herself traveling back through time by scrolling through photographs she had taken with her smartphone’s camera. Because of the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about, she came to realize that those photos and trip memories had become nostalgia before their time. The two collages, one titled North, the other South, showcase this nostalgia. South is of places that are less familiar to the artist; whereas, North is closer to home –  the Midwest. Both work together to offer an autobiographical glimpse of Ms. Prugh.