Jennifer Nadler (Wright) was born in 1960 in New York City and spent her youth in New Jersey. Her 4 Grandparents are from Eastern Europe, from the towns of Grodno Gubernia, Lebedvo, Vilna & Horodenka. As a child, Jennifer loved the arts, music, and mythology. She took art classes and studied the piano from the age of 5. In both her schooling and parental upbringing, the arts, music, and drama in combination were valued as integral.

Jennifer graduated from Yale College in 1982 with a BA in Art History, studying under mentors Vincent Scully and Turner Brooks. She spent 1982 – 1983 in Haifa, Israel on a Lady Davis Architectural Fellowship, sketching and traveling throughout Israel and Egypt. Jennifer graduated from the Harvard GSD in 1987 with a Master’s in Architecture, studying under mentors Raphael Moneo, Harry Cobb, and James Ackerman. She moved to New York City to work for I.M. Pei & Partners in 1987.

Jennifer has worked as an Architect at both private design firms and public agencies. Simultaneously, she has painted and made architectural sculptures without the pressure to sell. Jennifer has painted many wall & ceiling murals in local public schools, in a Synagogue, and in her home.

In 2020, Jennifer and her husband, Roy Wright, Photographer, wrote and published C.B.J. Snyder, New York City Public School Architecture, 1891 – 1922.

In addition to being an artist and architect, Jennifer is a pianist. She lives with her husband and two college-aged children in Jersey City, NJ.

Statement:

I remember a moment outside of time when I was 4. I was in a higher world, both in myself and in the universe. There was the wordless recognition that I wished to become an artist.

I believe that everyone can have such moments, wherein everything temporarily aligns. Essence is touched.

In my daily life, I experience pendulum swings between sadness, the loss of a connection with a more real self, followed by happiness, the remembrance and recovery of it. As I begin to evolve and change, through openness to help, I am less attached to the oscillation.

I try to express these ideas in my paintings. Like Odysseus, an individual’s possible movement is one of struggle to find their way back home.

Chartres Cathedral expresses a magnificent moment of Unity. The long “Y” axis of the nave arrives at the short “X” axis of the transept, while the “Z” axis ascends upwards. Three spatial extensions come together, expressive and symbolic of the possible unification that can take place in a human being, through work on oneself. The energy at Chartres Cathedral is like the energy of the moment of remembrance I experienced when I was 4.