SASKIA JELL

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Saskia Jell, a multidisciplinary German American artist working with oil on canvas creates an intimate and visceral dialog through form, color, light and the illusion of space. Her paintings transmute energy; creating their own beautiful environments and imaginary life forms, inspired by the intense beauty she finds in nature and in contrast to her art studio in New York City. 

After receiving  her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Saskia competed her masters at the Academy for Film and Television in Munich and went on to become an internationally award-winning filmaker.  Her awards include; The ABC Disney Directing Talent Award, the Young Talent Award from Hennessy Advertising Awards, Best Young Filmmaker Award from the Bavarian Film Academy ( BFA ).  Saskia’s films “Drive” and “Blind”, which she wrote and directed, both won Best Screenplay Grants from the esteemed Prinzregenten Theatre in Munich, and Screenplay Grants from the German Film Fund (FFF). Her thesis film “Blind” won Best Short Film in the Barcelona Film Festival, Best Camera and Best Young Actress Award in the Berlin Film Festival and Best Short Film Award in the Other Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Los Angeles. Additionally, her films have shown in other festivals around the world such as The Edinburgh Film Festival, The Clairement-Ferrand Film Festival in France and The Chicago Film Festival, among others. 

 Saskia recently returned to her first love of painting, where rooted in a foundation of European cinematic studies and transatlantic postwar abstraction, Saskia employs a recurring vocabulary of thin porous brush strokes, organic dripping of pure oil pigment, and layering, to build expansive porous fields in an amorphous space.  The first solo show of her paintings in 2023 at “Die Segelfabrik” in Berlin, Germany sold out. Saskia currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.