TAMARA KRENDEL received her BFA and MFA from The University of Pennsylvania and pursued independent post-graduate studies in Antwerp, Belgium* (*Painting independently, commuting to Brussels where she’d been granted permission to paint in the King’s Royal Glass house and copy Jan van Eyck’s Madonna of the Fountain at The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.)

Other honors and awards include Fulbright and Belgian Ministry of Dutch Culture Grants to Belgium and full fellowships to YADDO and Yale University’s Yale-Norfolk program.

She has exhibited, given talks, demonstrations and presentations at various venues including: The Whistler House Museum, Fort Point Channel Community Gallery, The Concord Art Association, The Attleboro Arts Museum and Widner’s Art Museum, she spoke at Mass General’s Illuminations program where her greenhouse series was recently on display. She has curated eight exhibits since 2002.

Tamara has taught art for many years designing classes at various schools and colleges.

Her work has been widely reviewed and is in many private and public collections.

Noted critic Burton Wasserman wrote in a review for Art Matters, of her exhibit of paintings at the Widener University Art Museum:

“Krendel exercises considerable poetic license, freely transforming the shape of growing plants and botanical settings in which they’re found into oil and watercolor compositions rippling with light and patterns of excitement. Poetic transcriptions of her most naked perceptions, these pictures are not observations based on external realities as much as they are playful inventions, inspired composites of jewel-like incandescence, sparkling vitality and imaginative joy…”