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.
Gendel received her BFA in 1996 from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and her MFA in 1998 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, Loyal Gallery in Malmö, Sweden and Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, TX. Her work is included in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT 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.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
PAINT 450G-01 - GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE I
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PAINT 450G-01
GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE I
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Jackie Gendel, Kelley-Ann LindoLocation(s): Fletcher Building, Room 203Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This period is designed for the students to evaluate and analyze the directions he/she established as an undergraduate. Criticisms of the student's work will be aimed at identifying strengths and weaknesses and help the students clarify fundamental objectives. Group and individual critiques will occur by resident faculty and visiting artists and critics during the semester. Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for continuance in the program.
Open to Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Painting
PAINT 4519-02 - DRAWING I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PAINT 4519-02
DRAWING I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: TH | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Jackie GendelLocation(s): College Building, Room 512Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introductory level course for Painting majors. Students will develop drawing skills and insights and consider basic visual language issues. Syllabus is coordinated with Painting I.
Open to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 460G-01 - GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE III
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PAINT 460G-01
GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE III
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
PeriodFall 2024
Credits9
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Jackie Gendel, Kevin ZuckerLocation(s): Fletcher Building, Room 203Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This period is designed as an advanced critique course which involves visits by resident faculty, visiting artists and critics, with special reference to current issues and concerns in contemporary art.
Three Critics will offer graduate students the opportunity to get inside the art critic's head and learn how writers think about the visual. Students will be exposed to a wide range of viewpoints and discourse on contemporary art issues as defined by the interests of three different, practicing critics. Each critic will become part of the RISD community for approximately one month, conducting 3 sessions on campus and one in New York or Boston. On-campus meetings will consist of lectures, reading and writing assignments, group critiques and one-on-one studio visits. Off-campus trips will include visits to museums, galleries and artist studios. Small groups of students will be expected to lead several classes. Outside coursework and full participation in class discussion required for successful completion.
Open to Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Painting
Spring 2025 Courses
PAINT 451G-01 - GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE II
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PAINT 451G-01
GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE II
LevelGraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Jackie Gendel, Kerry DowneyLocation(s): Fletcher Building, Room 203Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This period is designed for the student to evaluate and analyze and pursue the directions he/she established in Grad Paint Studio Critique I. Group and individual critiques will occur by resident faculty and visiting artists and critics during the semester.
Open to Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Painting
PAINT 4520-01 - PAINTERLY PRINTS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PAINT 4520-01
PAINTERLY PRINTS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPainting
Subject Painting
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: TH | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Jackie GendelLocation(s): Benson Hall, Room 206Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.
This period is designed for development and presentation of a body of work supported by a written thesis in consultation with resident faculty, visiting artists and critics during the semester. A final exhibition of work will be evaluated by a jury of Painting Faculty Members.
