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Jesse Ly

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imagine like a really cool snake here (but instead you get the water where it was)

12”x16”x1.25” archival inkjet print in handmade walnut frame. by @jessely

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3 days ago

transitory space.
18” x 24” x 2”
custom photographic panel with affixed instax wide prints.

Up now for kismet & control at Mac / Pace Galleries @usi_artdesign with genius friend @rachaelcbanks.
Show runs through end of October. by @jessely

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15 days ago

ISSUE NO. 168 • JESSE LY⁠
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Jesse Ly is an Asian-American artist working across photography, sculpture, and bookmaking, navigating identity through the transitional qualities of images. In our gardens, Ly affixes Instax photographs onto panels cut from a single marigold image, holding moments of care and community within layered, protective compositions. @jessely⁠
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our gardens #18, 2026⁠
Instax wide photographic prints, archival inkjet print⁠
mounted on custom wooden float panel⁠
11 x 14 in.⁠
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our gardens #9, 2026⁠
Instax wide photographic prints, archival inkjet print⁠
mounted on custom wooden float panel⁠
11 x 14 in.⁠
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our gardens #5, 2026⁠
Instax wide photographic prints, archival inkjet print⁠
mounted on custom wooden float panel⁠
11 x 14 in.⁠
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our gardens #13, 2026⁠
Instax wide photographic prints, archival inkjet print⁠
mounted on custom wooden float panel⁠
11 x 14 in.⁠
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our gardens #6, 2026⁠
Instax wide photographic prints, archival inkjet print⁠
mounted on custom wooden float panel⁠
11 x 14 in.⁠
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Collé originals are available to collect — on Artsy (link in bio) and at our Newport Beach gallery. by @jessely

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a month ago

ISSUE NO. 168 • JESSE LY⁠
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Jesse Ly is an Asian-American artist working across photography, sculpture, and bookmaking, navigating identity through the transitional qualities of images. In our gardens, Ly affixes Instax photographs onto panels cut from a single marigold image, holding moments of care and community within layered, protective compositions. @jessely⁠
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Sign up to receive Collé by commenting “Subscribe”⁠
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Collé originals are available to collect — on Artsy (link in bio) and at our Newport Beach gallery. by @jessely

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a month ago

our gardens

36 - 11” x 14” custom photographic panels with mounted instax wide prints.

some excerpts and installation views for kismet & control, a two person exhibition between myself and @rachaelcbanks at Mac/Pace Galleries at University of Southern Indiana (@usi_artdesign)

Show runs through 10.30.26 <3 taken in McCutchan Art Center and Pace Galleries by @jessely

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a month ago

try, take time — take time, try
Install views @filterphoto which only has a couple of weeks left if you would life to see it in person.

Floored with the result of getting to see this work in the space. Big thanks to everyone at Filter Space @erinhoytharris @caitlinmpeterson @bykenncook @_ju.__ju._ for being so kind, thoughtful, helpful, and considered with the install and run of this show <3

Also huge thank you to @susanaurinko for the kind words and thoughts in the write up of the show @newcitymag taken in Filter Photo by @jessely

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4 months ago

our gardens (10-18 of 36)
11”x14” custom photographic panels with affixed instant photographic prints

Another install view @thecarnegie for the body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death curated by Midwest icon running all over the damn place @seanjpatrickcarney

a moment of home, a home of a friend, a notation of difference on a walk, basking in the glory of our minuscule existences, a collaborative practice, a mark made, a signifier of cultural protection, everything and nothing in between. taken in The Carnegie by @jessely

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5 months ago

🏵️ 🕯️ On view now: Jesse Ly in "The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death."

"Marigolds signify longevity and protection in China, the sun in Hindu traditions, and, in Mexico, cempasúchil carries a scent said to create a bridge between the living and the dead. Enlarged to fill windows in an earlier project, the image is cut down at the Carnegie into 36 tiles in handmade wooden frames, each overlaid with intimate snapshots from daily life. This reuse carries a Midwest economy, a kind of creative composting, and a Dayton specificity, where Ly has built a life and a home."
– Sean J Patrick Carney, Curator

Gallery Hours: Thu.–Sat., Noon – 5 PM.
Exhibition Run: April 3 – August 8, 2026
📷: Jesse Ly by @jessely

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6 months ago

Hello hello hello, My name is Jesse Ly (@jessely) and I will be taking over the #FilterPhoto feed today sharing some of the works that are a part of my exhibition “try, take time - take time, try.” Opening this Friday May 1st with a reception from 5-8PM, the show will be on view at #FilterSpace through June 13th.

Today I will be sharing a glimpse of this body of work this exhibition revolves around and talk about it in relation to my larger practice as whole.

try, take time - take time, try has been a body of work delving into the spectrum and intersections of care and labor. I have found myself over the past two years developing this work with a fixation on how these notations consecutively blend.

What does it mean to show care and tenderness?
What does it look like showing convictions and actions to preserve these?
A call and response as well as affirmations and reminders. What does it mean to flow between these motives of trying and devoting time?

The work above is titled “reach & harness,” a new piece debuting for this show – a piece I have been dreaming of and holding onto the idea for as this body of work has grown. While grounded in reality my practice still retains an affinity for what can feel like magic in the process. I am curious how an attention to the preternatural can be collective, analyzed, and harnessed in different capacities to hold space for ideals. #FilterPhotoTakeover by @jessely

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6 months ago

our gardens (1-9 of 36)
11”x14” custom photographic panels with affixed instant photographic prints

+ an install view from The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death @thecarnegie curated by genius sweet human being @seanjpatrickcarney

Still reeling from getting to participate in this show and exhibiting alongside some thoughtful kickass folks <3 This show is up through August. You wanna go to Northern Kentucky and visit this beautiful building and see this show soooooooo bad. taken in The Carnegie by @jessely

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6 months ago

🗓️ Up next at #FilterSpace: try, take time – take time, try, a solo exhibition by Asian-American artist Jesse Ly.

Opening on May 1st, try, take time – take time, try is a multidisciplinary project, spanning photographic, sculptural, and installation approaches, examining the intersection of care and labor. The work navigates the interplay between tenderness and firmness, exploring how these forces coexist in the process of change, and together create space for protection, affirmation, and possibility.

👀 Stay tuned for more sneak peeks of the work as the opening approaches! taken in Filter Photo by @jessely

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6 months ago

perspectival shifting & showing (i, ii, iii, iv)

4x5 archival inkjet prints on moab slickrock pearl in
Handmade 11x14 walnut, sapele, cherry and ash frames. by @jessely

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7 months ago