Gendel received her B.F.A. in 1996 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and her M.F.A in 1998 from Yale University. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, Loyal Gallery in Malmö, Sweden and Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, Texas. Her work is included in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and the Progressive Collection and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times and The New Yorker. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Gendel an Academy Award in Art in 2007. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Much of Jackie Gendel’s recent work makes contradictory use of two of modernity’s most common conventions of image production: serial repetition of form and the sequential image of narrative. She employs both, using them simultaneously to unfold the implied relationship between narrative time and painterly process. Gendel’s early work derived from her background in underground comics, a medium of “sequential image” storytelling, which she drew in the late ’90s for an upstart feminist webzine for teenage girls.
At MacDowell in 2004, she completed oil paintings to be shown at Mixture Contemporary Art in Houston, TX, and Jessica Murray Projects in New York, NY. During her next residency, she worked on more paintings to be shown at Jessica Murray Projects.
