About

Jacqueline Frankel (née Huber), born in Basel, Switzerland, is a Swiss artist whose practice spans painting, photography, and printmaking. Since moving to Brooklyn in 1993, she taught visual art and developed programs introducing young students to materials while raising a child. She has since returned to her studio, using gesture, material, and form to explore the dialogue between impermanence, memory, and resonance.

Education & Training

  • 1982–86: School of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland

  • 1986–87: Study Abroad, Rice University, Houston, TX

  • 1988–89: Painting & Photography, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain

  • 1997: Screenprinting Studio, FIT, NYC

  • 2015–16: Watercolor Techniques, The Art Students League, NYC

ARTIST Statement

Through layering and erasure, my work traces a dialogue between impermanence, memory, and resonance. Surfaces are built up and deliberately washed away, leaving faint echoes—the way memory both frays and lingers.

I use the body as a tool: pressure, touch, and gesture guide each mark, so that movement itself becomes visible, carrying the imprint of my presence.

Each material carries a distinct voice: watercolor dissolves, graphite scratches, crayon resists, oil stick blurs. Together they form a shifting balance of tension and harmony, reflecting the complexity of human experience.

The work draws inspiration from nature’s raw processes of transformation—erosion, weathering, cycles of beauty and decay. These rhythms surface in my paintings on paper, where presence and absence coexist, and delicate elements reveal their strength.

In this dialogue between body, material, and landscape, I seek the threshold where the fleeting meets the enduring.