Jess Collins
- Category : 1923-births
- Type : PSP
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Split - Large
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 3
Biography
American visual artist, known today as Jess, who met poet Robert Duncan in 1951 and began a relationship with him that lasted until Duncan's death in 1988.
In 1952, in San Francisco, Jess, with Duncan and painter Harry Jacobus, opened the King Ubu Gallery, which became an important venue for alternative art and which remained so when, in 1954, poet Jack Spicer reopened the space as the Six Gallery.
Many of Jess's paintings and collages have themes drawn from chemistry, alchemy, the occult, and male beauty, including a series called Translations (1959–1976) which is done with heavily laid-on paint in a paint-by-number style.
Jess died on 2 January 2004, aged 80.