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About
Gabrielle Jennings is a Los Angeles artist, writer, and educator, whose work mines our collective unconscious, often through appropriation to approach the climate crisis via the future imaginary. Current subject matter includes Lost Birds, the effects of pesticides on ecosystems, and symbiosis/mutualism. For the past thirty years, she has worked across media, most recently producing gif-videos, artist’s books and found poetry. Her work has appeared on Writers’ Kingston Online #29 and 7x7la, Olney Magazine, Fence and Terror House.
Born in San Francisco, Jennings is a California native; she came of age in Venice Beach, and earned her BFA at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. During college, Jennings spent a year abroad studying Film and Critical Studies at Paris-Sorbonne University. She earned her MFA at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
Most recently, Jennings premiered Silent Spring Redux, a mesmerizing video homage to Rachel Carson’s 1962 plea-warning on the dangers of pesticide use, “A Fable for Tomorrow.” Previously, the artist’s solo show “Country Roads” at MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, paired the 1970s ‘back to the land’ movement, with tv shows from the same era like Little House on the Prairie and Green Acres. The artist has shown nationally and internationally, and has been artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and 200 Gertrude Street Artist Spaces, Melbourne. She’s been honored with support from such organizations as the Art Matters Fellowship, Philip Morris Kunstforderung, and the Samsung Faculty Enrichment Grant. Among others, writers Harold Fricke, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, and Jan Tumlir have written about her work.
Jennings has taught in the MFA Art program at ArtCenter College of Design for three decades, and currently serves as Associate Chair of the MFA/Graduate Art program. Jennings has the distinction of having edited a collection of essays for University of California Press: Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art. This groundbreaking volume includes a diverse set of essays centered around the question of abstraction in the moving image arts.
Recent Teaching
ArtCenter Graduate Press with Pop-Up Press/Publishing Fair at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Glitch
Artist’s Book Workshop I-IV with Pop-Up Book Fair at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Thesis Workshop
That “Wonder Woman” Piece
Hacking Systems: Acts of Resistance
On Absence
Essay, Film, Art
The Crisis of Everything: Post-Representation and the Moving Image
Radical Cut-Up
Stop It & Just Do
Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art & Abstract Video: Narrative