Please join us on Friday, May 19th at 5pm for the opening of undertow, a solo exhibition by Jessica Gandolf.

Taking Off, oil on panel

undertow, is about energy: how it moves, vibrates, and impacts one’s body and lived experience. The paintings featured in the exhibition come from the past three years of deep focus on abstraction as a language to convey energetic movement and make visual the physics of emotion and intuition. What began as pure abstraction led to a return of the body itself showing up in the paintings - first as a sparsely indicated torso and then as a more corporeal figure or body part. Gandolf explores somatic experiences through the use of vibrating colors and geometric shapes which resonate beyond the edges of her panels.

ABOUT JESSICA GANDOLF

Born and raised in New York City, Jessica Gandolf has lived in Portland for 30 years. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from Brooklyn College where she studied with Lois Dodd and Lee Bontecou. She received an NEA Regional Fellowship in Painting in 1994. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell (twice) and at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Hewnoaks and Cummington Community for the Arts. She has been a Lecturer at Bowdoin College and Bates College. She has exhibited across the country and at several venues internationally.