Jessica Van Hulle’s artwork is full of passion and conviction. She has an opinion and a strong vision rarely seen in the low-brow art movement.

Van Hulle mostly paints beautiful steampunk girls in cheeky pin-up poses and provocative portraits. However, these are more than just sexy eye-candy. Her sensual oil paintings feature intense themes of individualist self-image, female sexual power, authenticity, and hope on the edge of apocalypse.

Her paintings are about reclaiming individuality in the face of a brain-washing mass media. They are about turning away from trash and returning to elegance and dignity, while still being fun and playful. And they are about putting creative energy towards what she wants to see more of in the world: healthy women with healthy psyches.

Van Hulle's work invites viewers to re-evaluate the homogenized and robotic images of sexiness and beauty that inundate our culture and the impact that it has, particularly on girls. She hopes that viewers will walk away feeling opened up, inspired, hopeful….and just a little naughty.

Jessica Van Hulle was born in the middle of the night in San Francisco General Hospital in 1979. She grew up in the East Bay, raised by an architect and a psychic. She moved to downtown S.F. and received her B.F.A. in Illustration in May 2004 from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

Van Hulle has been honored nationally for her artwork, especially because of its fine quality and the emotional responses it evokes. Her work has been displayed in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle WA, Berkeley CA and other places around the Bay Area. She has been participating in installing, curating, selling, consulting, teaching, illustrating and painting fine art professionally since 2001.

She currently lives in West L.A. and spends her weekdays as a Halloween costume and high heel shoe designer. Every other time, she can be found pondering human nature, painting sexy sci-fi/fantasy illustrations, and hanging out watching subversive cartoons.