Jessica Diamond emerged in the New York downtown art scene in the early 1980s with witty works pushing boundaries in both commercial and artistic terms. Using language as her main medium, she creates statements in her handwriting combined with drawings that she applies in various sizes on gallery walls, but also in public space. Her investigations into trigger points of commercialism and money culture are at once critical and humorous and, at times, sheer poetic. In “Tributes to Kusama: Love Like a Mack Truck”, 1994/2021 she merges letters as if they were lovers, creating a dynamic that is as powerful as the truck that it borrows the title from. As curator Ralph Rugoff once wrote: “Diamond uniquely transforms the wall drawing into an apt medium for paying tribute. Like true love, its dimensions are always variable, as each work is scaled to the feel of the space where it will temporarily reside.”