ABOUT

Jessica Hogue is an artist and architect. The work highlighted on this site draws upon her experience in both disciplines by using architectural tools - parametric modeling and digital rendering / fabrication - to produce sculptural compositions that bring formal substance to abstract data. Modern techniques meet timeless patterns and geometries. 

Although digital tools are used for design and production, the results are akin to quilting, mosaic tiling, and mashrabiyas - crafts that center on pattern making and embed symbolism and meaning for the communities where and the people for whom they are made. At the same time, they’re like fingerprints or hieroglyphs - symbols that contain information. Predesigned pieces are available for order, as well as customized pieces that make art from your data: your anniversaries, birthdays, initials, or other data that represent your joys, loves and losses - the data that seems trivial but is embedded in our stories.

creating form with DATA

The geometries rendered in my prints are built from parametric models. An underlying structure is morphed and customized by adjusting numerical inputs. This can be done intuitively, sliding the points along their axes until it looks compelling, or by entering numbers that correspond to data. (Check out the video for a glimpse at the transformation.)