“This painting continues to explore the ideas of uncomfortable growth and pulling oneself out of a dark place.” — Jacquelin Nagel
About the artist
Jackie Nagel
American
Jacquelin Nagel was born in 1995 in California and has been drawing and painting since childhood. She received her BA from Loyola Marymount University in 2017 and her MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in 2023. She explores the relationship between drawing, painting, and photography to present a surreal world based in skillful representation of photo-based figurative works. She often uses a collage like approach and taps into her background as a florist to help piece together her own world. She utilizes a glazing technique used by the Old Masters to give her paintings a high level of luminosity and saturation. Her work uses the figure to convey metaphors that help her to be at peace with who she is and what she has experienced.
