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About the Artist
Jennifer Woolcock Schwartz was born in Jamaica. She studied painting at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. After completing film studies at New York University, she co-produced and co-directed a documentary film portrait called Louie, which premiered on WNET Thirteen and was broadcast on PBS in 1981. Ms. Schwartz directed plays by Marsha Norman, Horton Foote, Alice Childress and Mary Gallagher at the Terry Schreiber Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theatre Institute from 1986 to 1989. Returning to painting in 1990, Jennifer has exhibited in galleries in New York and Europe. Her most recent work, On the Street Where I Live, a 3D Immersive World, was shown at the Boston CyberArts Festival in 2005. Prior to On the Street, her installation My Perfect Body, was the centerpiece of AnXious, a show curated by Helen Varola at the D.U.M.B.O Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, January, 2002. Absolutely Fashionable! Jennifer's first solo exhibition, debuted at the Soho20 Gallery in New York, in 1999 and has been included in a book about installation art by Dr. Gan Xu, Assistant Professor of Art History at the Maine College of Art. Jennifer is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her work is in private collections in New York and has been written about in a number of publications including The Villager, PaintingsDirect.com, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Previews magazine and has received “special mention” in The New York Times. |