Jessica Gandolf Paintings

Jessica Gandolf Paintings

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The University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor will be presenting work by Jessica Gandolf from April 2 through June 19, 2004. Her oil paintings of old-time baseball players fill small panels with meticulous detail and rich color. These luminous paintings belie their scale with the weight of their emotional content, isolating the figures against backdrops that include ethereal skies, landscapes and light-filled emptiness.

Gandolf begins each image with a photograph found in an old newspaper, magazine, or the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. By reworking these public images she creates paintings that have the intensity of icon paintings but describe something beyond heroic exploits and record-setting statistics, illuminating the ordinary men behind their extraordinary accomplishments.

Jessica Gandolf is a graduate from Oberlin College with an MFA from Brooklyn College. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship recipient. She has shown her work in numerous galleries throughout New England and was included in the Center for Maine Contemporary Art “2002 Juried Biennial” as well as the Portland Museum of Art Biennial.