Amorelle Jacox (b. 1994, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a contemporary painter whose practice investigates metaphysical questions through a visual language that moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration. Drawing on influences as diverse as Color Field painting, Surrealism, Symbolism, and Transcendentalism, her work explores the relationship between the self and the cosmos, creating compositions in which bodies, landscapes, and celestial forms merge into atmospheric, psychologically charged spaces. A distinctly feminine spirituality underpins her practice, expanding from intimate reflections on human experience to broader meditations on time, matter, and the universe.
Jacox received her MFA from Hunter College in 2022 and is based in New York. Her paintings evolve through an intuitive process of layering and revision, allowing earlier stages of the composition to remain visible as integral components of the final work. Working primarily in oil, she constructs luminous surfaces in which figures and forms emerge, dissolve, and transform, blurring conventional distinctions between body, object, and environment. Rather than illustrating fixed narratives, her paintings invite open-ended readings shaped by memory, perception, and metaphysical inquiry.
Recent solo exhibitions include Mothers of Time at Management (New York, USA, 2026); 12.26 Gallery (Los Angeles, USA, 2025); Abraham & Wolff (Paris, France, 2025); Lauren Powell Projects (Los Angeles, USA, 2023); and Baseltor Kiosk (Solothurn, Switzerland, 2022). Recent group exhibitions include Gravity was an entity with Jessi Li at Management (New York, USA, 2024). She completed the Wolf Hill Arts residency in Chappaqua, New York, in 2023 and was awarded the Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant in 2022. Her work and writing have been published in Art Maze (2023) and the Yale School of Divinity's LETTERS journal (2019). Her work is held in the public collection of the Akron Art Museum (Akron, USA) and in numerous private collections, including those of trustees of The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, USA), among others. Her first institutional solo exhibition will be presented at the Akron Art Museum (Akron, USA) in March 2028.