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Jovi Schnell’s colorful wall works, paintings and cut-outs fuse the organic and the mechanic inventing playful networks of fantastical functioning that integrate her emblematic forms of Nature, Technology and Humanity.
She received her BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in '92 and received a 2-year fellowship at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, NL. Residencies include The MacDowell Colony and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture '95. In 2002 she received the Pollack-Krasner Award for painting. Ms Schnell’s work has been exhibited throughout many galleries and institutions including the Stedelijk Bureau Museum in Amsterdam, The Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center in New York, The Williams College Museum, PS1, The Derek Eller Gallery, The Luggage Store Gallery, and Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.
Her work has received reviews in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, The New Yorker and Art on Paper. She has been featured in various publications including Interview Magazine, ZingMagazine, Beautiful Decay and New American Painting.
Ms. Schnell currently lives and works in San Francisco and is visiting faculty at The San Francisco Art Institute, The California College of Art and UC Berkeley.
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