Jasmine Little, a Los Angeles–based mostly painter who made lush nonetheless lifes and etched ceramic vessels dense with historic references, has died at 41. La Loma, her Los Angeles gallery, introduced her loss of life on Friday. No explanation for loss of life was offered.
In a press release, gallery proprietor Kirk Nelson, who labored with Little since 2019, described her as “a drive of nature” and her work as “a mirrored image of her essence–at occasions tender, at occasions emotional, typically naughty, all the time curious, and full of surprise, magnificence, ache–the entire astonishing rainbow of feeling, being.”
“Despite the fact that I labored alongside her for years, I don’t know the way this younger artist from Joshua Tree sgraffito’d mythologies onto stone as if she was beamed in from Pompeii A.D,” Nelson stated. “She labored in divine, painful frenzies for days and weeks on finish. Monuments emerged. 5-hundred-pound sculpture inlaid with obsessively, superbly detailed linework and complete narratives. I used to be awed by her artwork and prodigy, however what I’ll miss most of all is our deep, foolish friendship. Lengthy conversations in her studio concerning the lonely, impressed lifetime of artmaking. She was humorous and relentless and made artwork of the gods.”
Little was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1984. She obtained her bachelor’s from UCLA in 2007 and, in 2015, earned a grasp’s from Adam State College in Alamosa, Colorado. Evening Gallery, Tif Sigfrids, Nina Johnson Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, and different galleries have exhibited Little’s work.
“Our hearts exit to her household and all of these she touched,” Nelson stated.
An set up shot of the 2025 exhibition “Modesto Hoover Wagon Meet” at La Loma.
