Born in Basel, Switzerland Jacqueline Frankel Huber studied painting at the School of Art and Design in Basel. She attended the Visual Arts Study Abroad Program at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and attended classes for painting and photography at Escola Massana in Barcelona, Spain.
She moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1993 where she has been raising a son and working as an artist and educator.
ARTIST Statement
My work grows from gesture and motion, where layers of lines and washes build and dissolve into form. Using watercolor, graphite, crayons, and oil stick, I explore the dialogue of surfaces and sensations—watercolor seeping and spreading, graphite scratching, crayon resisting, oil stick pressing heavily—each mark carrying its own rhythm and weight.
Rooted in my body these gestures extend beyond the personal, speaking to the shared rhythms of human experience: the way memory lingers, emotion moves, and our bodies leave traces in the world. Lines overlap, washes seep, and forms emerge and dissolve, reflecting impermanence, fragility, and resonance.
Through this accumulation of gesture, color, and touch, I seek to make visible the invisible—the pulse of the body, the trace of emotion, the subtle currents that connect us all. These works are at once intimate and shared, personal and collective—echoes of human experience in motion.
EDUCATION
2015/16 The Art Students League - Watercolor Techniques, NYC
1997 FIT - Screenprinting Studio, NYC
1988/89 Escola Massana, Barcelona/SP
1986/87 Study Abroad at Rice Univ., Houston/TX
1983-86 School of Art and Design, Basel/CH