Jennifer Vanderpool is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. 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."

Career

In 2007, the

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: Danish Arts Council awarded Vanderpool an artist grant for her exhibition ''Once Upon a Tart'' at RACA in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two years prior the

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for the Visual Arts awarded funding for Vanderpool's site specific installation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Vanderpool created a series of molds as part of an installation for Virserums Konsthall titled ''Blomster'' in

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, 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." In 2010, the Kulturrådet:

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awarded Vanderpool's exhibition ''Sagoberättelser'' at Designarkivet,

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, Sweden an International Cultural Grant, while Malmö Stad awarded her a cultural grant for her exhibition ''förgyllda trädgårda.'' That same year the

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, City of Los Angeles and Durfee Foundation awarded Vanderpool a grant for exhibitions that took place in Los Angeles and Bogotá, Colombia. Her 2011 exhibition ''Wanton'' at the Galería Sextante 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." Vanderpool created an installation in 2012 for the

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titled ''Hometown Story: Youngstown Steel Kitchens''. The exhibition incorporated film and advertisements which addressed nostalgia, domesticity and gender roles. In 2013, Vanderpool exhibited ''Family Stories/Сімейні Оповідання'' at Faina Gallery , Dmitry Futerman Gallery in conjunction with Kroshytskyi Art Museum, in

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, Ukraine. ''Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art'' included Vanderpool on their Best Artists List of 2013. In 2014, she exhibited "Super Natural" at the

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. 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." Vanderpool has served as a panelist for Plan B at the 24th International Sculpture Conference: Sculpture, Culture, & Community in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

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. In 2016, Vanderpool curated an exhibition titled "Imaginary Selves" at the Harris Gallery at

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. 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.

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Art Galleries in

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received a

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grant in 2016 to exhibit ''A Moderate Proposal'' co-curated by

Art Galleries Director/Curator Ciara Ennis and artist Jennifer Vanderpool. Vanderpool exhibited ''Piter'' as a part of the

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and Cold War Archive's ''Artistic Interpretations of the Cold War'' in

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beginning in April 2016 alongside artists Farrah Karapetian, Richtje Reinsma and Daphne Rosenthal. ''Piter'' included 4 large-scale digital prints, 5 posters hung salon style with works from the

's collection, a projected video and an interview with a Los Angeles resident who moved to the US after living in Soviet Union. Vanderpool co-curated with Việt Lê ''Love in a Time of War'' at

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which "demonstrates as love and war police bodies, there’s code-breaking and brinksmanship. The show is abound with subtle insertions and unknown histories, as well as humor and beauty." She exhibited 5 videos as a part of the M.A.R.S. (Music & Arts ReSound) Festival in

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during April 2017. Vanderpool exhibited a video from ''Super Natural'', 2014–17 in Twenty/20, a month long film exhibition held by Edward Cella Art + Architecture in

, each day featured a different artist's video playing on loop from the time the gallery opened to the time it closed. She exhibited "Flores para el Trueque" curated by No Lugar: Arte Contemporáneo exhibited at La Huerta y La Maquina in

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in May 2017 consisting of interviews with laborers involved in the floriculture industry in California and Ecuador alongside a series of 15 prints. Vanderpool exhibited "Garment Girl", organized by Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, at Heritage Space,

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featuring interviews with garment workers stories told by Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles and academics' viewpoints on labor rights in the garment industry. The interviews were exhibited with a 3 part mural and a series of 6 large prints. "Remake" workshops, organized with artist and fashion designer Hồng Phạm, were also held prior to the opening of the exhibition to provide working poor women in Hà Nội a space to make new garments from recycled clothing. Vanderpool was awarded an ArtSTART grant from The

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for her most recent exhibition, "Untold Stories," which featured a series of 15 large-scale prints, vintage photographs from Opie Evans and the Goodyear archive, and poetic documentaries. The show opened up at the

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then travelled to Emily Davis Gallery at the

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. She has been a visiting artist at

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in Bogotá, Colombia, Ölands Konstskola in

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, Sweden, the

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, and

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. Vanderpool has also been an artist in residence through the Hothouse 2015 program in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the

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in Los Angeles.

Visiting lecturer

Vanderpool has been a lecturer at the

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;

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and the Mount. St Mary's University, Los Angeles.

Education

Vanderpool holds an Independent, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the

(UCSB), in the fields of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities which was chaired by Dr. Colin Gardner and

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. She also holds an MFA in Spatial Studies and Critical Theory from UCSB, where she was a

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Fellow. Vanderpool's other degrees include an MA in Modern Art and Architecture from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of h ...

, an MA in Community Art Intervention from

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, and a BA in history from

Wittenberg University Wittenberg University is a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio. It has 1,326 full-time students representing 33 states and 9 foreign countries. Wittenberg University is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ...

References

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Galería Sextante - Taller Arte Dos Gráfico - Arte dos Gráfico TallerDesignarkivet , Nationellt arkiv för form och design i Sverige
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