Jacqueline Chanda

Born in Detroit Michigan, Jacqueline now reside in Tucson, Arizona. After receiving a BA in painting and drawing from UCLA, she traveled to France where she completed graduate studies in art and art history. After a career of working in universities and colleges, She decided to devote myself to her first love, oil painting. Since becoming a full time artist, she has exhibited her work in local, regional, national and international venues. She has won two honorable mention awards and received a grant for a residency in the south of France.

Artist Statement
I often use the term "observations" to describe my practice of creating narrative oil paintings from observational drawings and photographs that I have taken. From these visual resources I constructs multiple-figure compositions depicting common people doing common things in common situations. By emphasizing everyday occurrences, the ordinary becomes extraordinarily interesting. The invented stories, executed with painterly, loose brush strokes, represent moments in time. My artwork is inspired by that of Edgar Degas and Toulouse Lautrec, who were influenced by compositional elements found in Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. Thus I use accidental cropping as in a snapshot an...

Ph.D. Plastic Arts Theory and Aesthetics, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Académie de Port-Royal, Paris, France

MA Art Education, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

BA in Painting and Drawing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS (SELECTED)
2022 “35th September Competition,” Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
2022 “75th Annual Gilpin Arts Juried show,” Gilpin county Arts Asst. Central, CO
2022 “City Life: Night &Day,” The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS
2022 “The Best and the Brightest,” Scottsdale Artist School, Scottsdale, AZ
2022 “Vision & Sound: An African American Experience,” Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ and Goodyear Public Library, Goodyear, AZ
2021 “PAL Juried Show,” Harbor History Museum, Gig Harbor, WA
2021 “Stems Plein Air Paint,” The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS
2021 “Small Works,” The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS, 3rd Place Award
2021 “Celebration of Artists,” West Valley Art Museum, Prioria, AZ 1st Place & West Valley Art Museum Award.
2021 “Oil Painting National Exhibition,” Gladys & Karl T. Wiedemann Gallery, Wichita, KS
2021 “26th Arts North International,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2020 “Little by Little,” Ryan Gallery, Gilbert, AZ
2020 “70th A*ONE Exhibition,” Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2020 “73rd Annual Juried Art Show,” Gilpin Art Association, Central City,...