Jeannie Friedman is a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and poet. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she inherited her Italian family’s love of art in the everyday: the particular weave of threads in a wool plaid shirt, the precise ripeness of fresh red, Jersey tomatoes handled carefully in the open air market, and the sensual richness of South Philadelphia’s Catholic churches.

Her newest paintings are abstract landscapes, mixed media, on circular or diamond stretched canvasses that reflect the artist’s internal processing of world events, the ordinary and the incomprehensible.

Each new painting is an uncharted territory built on the deep belief that making art is a powerful human need: the need to connect to other people through personal expression.