Jes Moran is a Colorado-based painter and textile artist whose work explores how construction can transform the language of painting. By cutting apart painted canvas and sewing it back together, she disrupts the traditional painted surface and rebuilds it through seams, shapes, and structure. This process shifts gesture, color, and composition through physical reconstruction, resulting in quilted, geometric forms that exist between painting and object.

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Her work is rooted in repetition, deconstruction, and repair. Rather than preserving painting as a seamless image, Moran treats it as a material that can be dismantled, altered, and rebuilt. The finished works retain evidence of their making while reflecting memories of blue-collar labor, the landscapes of the American West, and the countless individuals who have used their hands to build lives for themselves and their families.

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Drawn to the care, resilience, and ingenuity embedded in handmade objects and repaired materials, Moran uses cutting and reconstruction as a way to honor histories of labor, persistence, and making. Through this process, painting becomes both an image and a record of transformation