Jennifer Vanderpool

Jennifer Vanderpool
Nationality American
Known for Printmaking, installation, video, performance art
Notable work
  • Hysterical Paradise (2008)
  • Wanton (2011)
  • Hometown Story: Youngstown Steel Kitchens (2012)
  • Family Stories/Сімейні історії (2013)
  • Super Natural (2014)
Awards
  • National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant (2002)
  • Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Featured Artist (2006)
  • International artist grant from Kunstrådet, Danish Arts Council (2007)
  • The Swedish Arts Council International Cultural Grant (2010)
Website jennifervanderpool.com

Jennifer Vanderpool is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.[1] In her work "there is a chipper cynicism to the retro character of the figures, buildings, fashions, and patterns, so that there is certainly a sense of tradition, yet there is also a sense of transference and surrealism." [2]

Career

In 2007, the Statens Kunstfond: Danish Arts Council awarded Vanderpool an artist grant for her exhibition Once Upon a Tart at RACA in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two years prior the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded funding for Vanderpool's site specific installation in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[3] [4]

Vanderpool created a series of molds as part of an installation for Virserums Konsthall titled Blomster in Virserum, Sweden in 2009; "Vanderpool uses the sculptural installation as a site where gender, sex, and food overlap in a curious play between aversion and craving, over-indulgence and restraint." [5][6]

In 2010, the Kulturrådet: Swedish Arts Council awarded Vanderpool's exhibition Sagoberättelser at Designarkivet, Nybro, Sweden an International Cultural Grant, while Malmö Stad awarded her a cultural grant for her exhibition förgyllda trädgårda. That same year the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles and Durfee Foundation awarded Vanderpool a grant for exhibitions that took place in Los Angeles, California and Bogotá, Colombia.[7]

Her 2011 exhibition Wanton at the Galería Sextante [8] in Bogotá, Colombia featured a variety of intricately designed sculptural and photographic works where "her ultra-baroque sensibility offers viewers a surfeit of visual and emotional pleasures, nothing is squandered."[9][10]

Vanderpool created an installation in 2012 for the Butler Institute of American Art titled Hometown Story: Youngstown Steel Kitchens. The exhibition incorporated film and advertisements which addressed nostalgia, domesticity and gender roles.[11]

In 2013, Vanderpool exhibited Family Stories/Сімейні Оповідання at Faina Gallery | Dmitry Futerman Gallery in conjunction with Kroshytskyi Art Museum, in Sevastapol, Crimea, Ukraine.[12]

Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art included Vanderpool on their Best Artists List of 2013.[13]

In 2014, she exhibited "Super Natural" at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, Russia. The exhibition included 26 digital postcards and two multichannel video works which "invite each viewer to investigate their beliefs about places and the people in them, using beauty as a guise to expose the facts behind the facade."[14][15]

Vanderpool has served as a panelist for Plan B[16] at the 24th International Sculpture Conference: Sculpture, Culture, & Community in New Orleans and for a symposium, Collecting Geographies: Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art,[17] in 2014 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

In 2016, Vanderpool curated an exhibition titled "Imaginary Selves" at the Harris Gallery at University of La Verne in La Verne, California.[18] The exhibition included works from Lisa Jevbratt, Jane Callister, Việt Lê, Brian McArthur, Catalina Jaramillo Quijano, and James Van Arsdale which explored notions of self through multiple modalities including race, genealogy, and music.

She has been a visiting artist at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, Ölands Konstskola in Öland, Sweden, the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Vanderpool has also been an artist in residence through the Hothouse 2015 program in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California.[19][20]

Visiting lecturer

Vanderpool has been a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles; and the Otis College of Art and Design.

Education

Vanderpool holds an Independent, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of California Regents in the fields of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities which was chaired by Dr. Colin Gardner and Dick Hebdige. She also holds an MFA in Spatial Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a UC Regents Fellow. Vanderpool's other degrees include an MA in Modern Art and Architecture from Emory University, an MA in Community Art Intervention from The Ohio State University, and a BA in History from Wittenberg University.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Starkey, David, "Creative Community Interview: Jennifer Vanderpool," January 14, 2011,<http://vimeo.com/20659968> Creative Community Interview
  2. ↑ Shana Nys Dambrot, "Jennifer Vanderpool: Family Stories in Ukraine," March 11, 2014, <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/jennifer-vanderpool-famil_b_4935894.html> Huffington Post Review
  3. ↑ Watts, James D., "Artful Gardening," Tulsa World, September 23, 2006,<http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=060923_Ho_D1_Artfu24975>
  4. ↑ Walker, Dana Sue, "Tour to Explore Tulsa's Artful Gardens," September 18, 2006, <http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=060918_So_D2_Tourt44641>
  5. ↑ http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag09/dec_09/dec09.shtml
  6. ↑ http://jennifervanderpool.com/files/Vanderpool_Sculpture_review.pdf
  7. ↑ Kasdin, Andrew, "Department of Cultural Affairs LA,"2011, pg. 15,<http://www.culturela.org/About_DCA/2011_DCA_ID.pdf>
  8. ↑ http://www.artedos.com/jeniffer-vanderpool
  9. ↑ http://jennifervanderpool.com/files/KevinConcannon_essay_en.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-4691128
  11. ↑ Gray, Andy. Artist returns to Valley for kitchen exhibit, Tribune Chronicle, January 19, 2012
  12. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/jennifer-vanderpool-famil_b_4935894.html
  13. ↑ http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/critic-s-picks-part-1/2844
  14. ↑ http://jennifervanderpool.com/files/KendallPata_essay_en.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.ncca.ru:8008/en/events.text?filial=2&id=1341&listid=2759
  16. ↑ http://www.sculpture.org/nola2014/sched.shtml#planb
  17. ↑ http://www.stedelijk.nl/upload/agenda/symposia/PROGRAM_Collecting_Geographies_03.2014nieuw.pdf
  18. ↑ http://sites.laverne.edu/art-history/university-galleries/harris-gallery/harris-gallery-current-exhibition/
  19. ↑ http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/featured/jennifer-vanderpool/
  20. ↑ http://www.wacd.ucla.edu/
  21. ↑ http://jennifervanderpool.com/biography/

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