Jennifer Agricola Mojica

The artist draws on themes and subjects relevant to the Bay Area Figurative School, including subjects such as the figure, still life, and landscape. In Do You Want to Go or Don’t You?, Agricola Mojica appropriates Elmer Bischoff’s Two Figures at the Seashore; Bischoff, a pioneer of the post-war Bay Area Figurative Movement, merged the gestural immediacy of then-prevailing abstract expressionism with figurative and narrative subjects. Much like Bischoff, she draws from visual memory and metaphysical sensations in composing her pictures, which include unspecified interiors and figures. In a 2025 interview with New Visionary Magazine, Agricola Mojica says the following about her work, “In Do You Want to Go or Don’t You, for example, these two figures are confronting the moment of separation, and they’re standing in this landscape that keeps shifting and breaking apart. You’ve got broken pots, plants that are simultaneously growing and dying, and these different planes that don't quite line up. It’s messy and tense, just like that feeling of holding onto pieces of their little lives while also trying to rediscover who I am beyond just being “mom.”