Artist’s Statement
What makes a beautiful work of art beautiful? What aim and vision? What higher levels of the universe is the artist trying to emulate?
I ask these and other questions. I wish to grow to understand the beauty of higher worlds, and to celebrate their ideological structure.
To grow philosophically, psychologically and technically, one needs help – teachings from men and women on higher levels who have gone before. Leonardo Da Vinci, Bach, Plato, Shakespeare and Hildegarde of Bingen come to mind. Loving the artistic works of these extraordinary beings, I try to remember myself.
An early experience of such remembrance was a moment when I was 4, wherein I was outside of time. I was both separate from and enveloped within the universe. I had the wordless recognition that I wished to become an artist.
Others have moments like this wherein essence is touched. How may one make a station in life of an accumulation of such moments?
In my daily life, I experience pendulum swings between sadness, throughthe loss of a connection with a more real self, followed by happiness, through the remembrance and recovery of it. Like Odysseus and Penelope, an individual’s possible movement is one of struggle to find their way home.
Chartres Cathedral expresses a magnificent unity. The long “Y” axis of the nave arrives at the short “X” axis of the transept, while the “Z” axis ascends. Three spatial extensions coalesce, expressive and symbolic of the possible unification that can take place within a human being.
Biography
Jennifer Nadler (Wright) was born in 1960 in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. Her 4 Grandparents came from Grodno Gubernia, Lebedvo, Vilna and Horodenka in Eastern Europe. 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 Vincent Scully and Turner Brooks. She spent 1982-1983 in Haifa, Israel on a Lady Davis Architectural Fellowship, traveling throughout Israel and Egypt. Jennifer graduated from the Harvard GSD in 1987 with a Master’s in Architecture, studying under 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. Jennifer has painted wall and ceiling murals in 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.Jennifer is also a pianist. She and her family live in Jersey City, NJ.