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Jaclyn Mednicov

Visual Artist
2021 Make a Wave
Visual Arts

Jaclyn Mednicov is a Chicago-based artist whose work combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. She has her BFA from University of Kansas, her MA from Eastern Illinois University, and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mednicov has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, and The SEA Foundation in the Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited in recognized galleries including Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC, NY). The Franklin (Chicago, IL), Northern Illinois University Art Museum (Dekalb, IL), Paris London Hong Kong (Chicago, IL), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL), The SEA Foundation (Tilburg, Netherlands), and more. She has won awards such as a 3Arts Make a Wave Grant, a Netherlands-America Cultural Grant, and an NEA grant. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Sheridan Road Magazine.

Mednicov is a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Featured Artworks

  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Winter Morning egg tempera and gesso on panel, 12 x 9 inches, 2023
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Morning Light wax pigment on handmade paper, 36 x 25 inches, 2023
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Garden (weeds) acrylic and steel, 52 x 32 inches, 2019
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Garden (mist) acrylic mounted on wood, 25 x 21 inches, 2022
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Garden (light) acrylic mounted on wood panel, 22 x 21 inches, 2022
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Garden (pink) acrylic, 26 x 24 inches, 2020
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Space Between oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, 2020
  •  Jaclyn Mednicov artwork Fading Blue oil on canvas, 38 x 39 inches, 2023

Jaclyn Mednicov has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

  • Vestiges of Time

    • $7,011 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 117% funded

    I’ve been selected to attend a 12-week residency program this summer at a ceramic center in the Netherlands and couldn’t be more thrilled. The medium of clay, with its impressionable surface, has recently allowed me to expand on my interest …

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