Undertow Jessica Gandolf Catalog

The catalog for our Summer 2023 exhibition undertow featuring the work of Jessica Gandolf.

undertow is about energy: how it moves, vibrates, and impacts one’s body and lived experience. The paintings featured in the exhibition come from 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.