Jessica Yorko is a self-taught painter and mixed media artist with more than 30 years' experience.
Her style blends elements of pointillism, magical realism and expressionism to create vibrant, contemporary acrylic and mixed-media artwork.
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Having won several youth art competitions in her home state of Florida in the 1990s, Jessica continued creating fine art paintings and graphic elements for various event and organizational promotions in Michigan throughout early 2000s. From 2006 to 2011, she worked with other Michigan-based artists to design and paint several outdoor neighborhood murals, and she also created indoor landscape-based murals.
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Jessica began marketing her artwork for sale in 2021, and in January 2022, she was commissioned to create a piece commemorating the Art of Aquarius event hosted by The Artist's Umbrella (AU) in Lansing, Michigan. Later that year she co-hosted a highly successful pop-up gallery show with AU and began selling her work at the The Gold Mine in Lansing, Michigan (an AU Outpost).
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Throughout 2022, Jessica established exhibition and retail partnerships with several Lansing-based merchants, event venues and art galleries. Her work is currently displayed for sale at Capital Hippie, The Fledge and Veg Head in Lansing. In 2022, her work was displayed at the Michigan Institute for Contemporary Arts, and from December 2022 through January 2023, her work was featured in an invited artist exhibition at Reach Studio Art Center in Lansing.
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In 2024, Jessica received the ACWL Nuveen Award in a Juried Exhibition in Whitehall, Michigan for her piece, Autumn Shine. ​In 2024 she also completed commission-based work for Michigan collectors and began creating fine art merchandise, coming to retail locations in Michigan in 2025.
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Having worked in the fields of community development, environmental science and public health while developing her artistic voice and style, Jessica's paintings and mixed media pieces often reflect the beauty and interconnectedness of nature and humanity.