Jodi gerbi

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Biography

Born in New York, Jodi Gerbi attended Syracuse University where she earned her B.F.A. majoring in Illustration with a concentration in Graphic Design which lead to a career in creating art for children’s clothing in the Fashion Industry for 15 years. When the company she was working for downsized, Jodi took this as an opportunity to go back to painting full time. In order to hone her skills both technically and conceptually, she went back to school earning her M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art in 2016. Her work has been shown at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Sotheby’s and the Flowers Gallery in New York as well as the gallery MK Apothecary in New Jersey. Recently, her work was shown in the online gallery for the Savvy Art Competition sponsored by Gamblin Artists and Trekell Art Supplies. Her painting was one of the works featured in the October 2017 print issue of Sotheby’s Magazine for the Take Home a Nude auction. In her work, Jodi Gerbi paints resilience but not always through the depiction of the figure.

Jodi Gerbi is representational painter depicting human resilience through her realistic  portrayals of the garbage, trash cans and drain pipes found in her daily life. Finding the beauty in this is her way of conveying the idea that humans are often required to find something beautiful in a hard situation in order to keep going. The ability of a human being to do this is the essence of resilience. 

When painting the figure, she is trying to catch that moment of vulnerability, the second when that person thinks no one is looking. That vulnerability is the best part of a human being and where we can really connect to each other. 

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Education

2016 New York Academy of Art • MFA • New York
1993 Syracuse University • BFA • New York

Exhibitions

2021
Works exhibiting with Fort Works Art • Fort Worth, Texas
Artists for Artists • Sotheby’s • New York, New York
Americana • 33 Contemporary • Online Exhibition via Artsy
5x5 Project IX• Abend Gallery • Denver, Colorado
Garbage • MK Apothecary • Collingswood, New Jersey
Works exhibiting with MK Apothecary • Collingswood, New Jersey

2020
4th Annual National Juried Exhibition • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art • Wausau, Wisconsin
Works exhibiting with MK Apothecary • Collingswood, New Jersey
Artists for Artists • Wilkinson Gallery • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
NYC •DFN Productions and 33 Contemporary • Online Exhibition via Artsy
Concealed Stories, What’s Left Unseen • 33 Contemporary • Online Exhibition via Artsy
Art Fair 14C • MK Apothecary • Jersey City, New Jersey

2019
29th Annual Minatures Show• Abend Gallery • Denver, Colorado
NYAA Summer Exhibition 2019• Wilkinson Gallery• New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
Emergent Collector Series 6• Experimental Space • Reis Studios • LIC, New York
Secondary Meanings• Zhou B Art Center • Chicago, Illinois
Downstairs, Beyond • As of Now Gallery • Brooklyn, New York
Adorn Me • Poets and Artists • Online Exhibition and Publication

2018
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society 2018 Fall International Exhibition • Virtual Exhibition • https://www.noaps.org/2018-fall-online
LIC Arts Fall Open Salon • LIC Arts Open Gallery • Long Island City, New York
100 for 100 • Fort Works Art • Fort Worth, Texas 
Anything But the Figure • Virtual Exhibition • Artsy/Zhou B Art Center 
Small But Fierce • Chashama Gallery • New York, New York
12th Annual NYAA Summer Exhibition • Flowers Gallery • New York, New York  Visions of Venus• Zhou B Art Center • Chicago, Illinois

2017
Power of Silence • Art Lines Gallery • Hackensack, New Jersey
Ways Through It • 375 Hudson Street • New York, New York
Savvy Art Competition • Online Gallery-Daily Brushwork • Sponsored by Gambiln Artist's Colors and Trekell Art Supplies
Deck the Walls • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York  
Take Home A Nude • Sotheby’s • New York, New York
Paddle 8 Take Home A Nude • Online Auction
Single Fare 4 • Highline Stages • New York, New York
Art for Aleppo • Catalyst Gallery • Beacon, New York
Close Quarters • Chashama Group Exhibition • New York, New York
Solo Exhibition • Long Island City, New York
Picturing the Unprintable • Flux Factory • Queens, New York

2016
Deck the Walls • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York  
Take Home A Nude • Sotheby’s • New York, New York
Paddle 8 Take Home A Nude • Online Auction
MFA Thesis Exhibition • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
Open Studios • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
Tribeca Ball • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
Paddle 8 Tribeca Ball • Online Auction

2015
Deck the Walls • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York  
Open Studios • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York
Tribeca Ball • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York

2014
Deck the Walls • New York Academy of Art • New York, New York  

Publications and Press

Americana • Hashtag Art Magazine • 2021
Apple News • Americana by Jan Anders Nelson • 2021
American Art Collector • Standing Still, Collector's Focus: Still Life’s by John O’Hern • Magazine • January 2020 issue
Creative Quarterly • Issue 56 • Magazine • Winner Fine art Professional category
Fine Art Connoisseur • painting in the article “Great Art Worldwide” • Magazine • May/June issue • 2019
Fine Art Connoisseur • name mentioned in “Celebrating Collectors: Scott and Patricia Moger” Magazine • March/April issue • 2019 
PoetsArtists • Secondary Meanings • Magazine • 2019
PoetsArtists • Painting the Figure Now • Magazine • 2019 
Painting in the Bold Brush Painting Competition- FAV15% February 2019/ “In Spite of You She Blooms”   https://faso.com/boldbrush/fav15/224
Create Magazine • Issue 11 • Magazine • 2019
PoetsArtists • Adorn Me • Magazine • 2018
Create Magazine • Issue 11 • Magazine
PoetsArtists • Anything But the Figure• Issue 98 • Magazine
PoetsArtists • 100 Fine Art Artists on Ello
https://medium.com/@didimenendez/100-fine-art-artists-on-ello-yes-ello-9ef9957493a5
Supersonic Art • Feature on website • https://supersonicart.com/post/174188488137/jodi-gerbi-paintings-excellent-paintings-by-long
Bored Panda, Didi Menendez • Article • https://www.boredpanda.com/trash-paintings/
PoetsArtists • Visions of Venus/Venus’ Visions Issue • Magazine
PoetsArtists • April 2018 Staff Picks • Online publication
https://www.poetsandartists.com/magazine/2018/4/26/april-2018-staff-picks
Creative Quarterly • Issue 50 • Online Gallery • Fine art Professional category
Sotheby's Magazine• Sneak Preview: The New York Academy of Art’s Take Home A Nude • http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/sotheby-s-magazine--october-2017/2017/09/sneak-preview-new-york-academy-art-take-home-a-nude-auction.html
Interview for National Association of Women Artists • https://www.thenawa.org/jodi-gerbi/

Awards

Creative Quarterly • Issue 56 • Winner: Fine Art Category

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