Writers and Artists Respond
Artist-Led Gallery Talk with Jackie Gendel
Join artist Jackie Gendel, Professor and Department Head of Painting, RISD, for a gallery talk in the exhibition Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte. Gendel, whose work explores the female form and experience through color, pattern, and material, holds a keen interest in women artists and creators of the early twentieth century.
Tickets: Free with Museum admission; advance RSVP required.
About the artist:
Jackie Gendel (b. 1973, Houston, TX) makes paintings that set groups of women adrift in color-saturated, pattern-inflected space, where narrative accumulates through repetition and sustained chromatic play. Gendel received a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. She is currently Professor and Department Head of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Felice Rix-Ueno, Purpurnelke (textile sample), August 1924. Printed plainweave silk, 16 1/8 × 15 15/16 in. (41 × 40.5 cm). MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Donation, 1955, WWS 595. Photo: © MAK/Branislav Djordjevic
