Jonas Fendell or Josh, as he preferred to be called, was an abstract painter and educator. A native New Yorker, he received his art training at the Brooklyn Museum School, New School of Social Research, Art Student's League and Syracuse University where he received both his B.A. and M.F.A. During his long career he had many exhibitions at such prestigious institutions as the Brooklyn Museum, Syracuse Museum, Corcoran, Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is in many permanent collections including those at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

Josh Fendell

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As both an educator and abstract artist with an innate talent for design and use of exquisite color, Josh was a unique individual. He was outspoken, iconoclastic and unconventional in just about everything he did. You never had to guess what he thought about anything, he told you, but he always encouraged you to develop your own informed opinions. Josh was a curious, questioning, seeker of truths and a generous, enthusiastic sharer of those truths with anyone caring to listen, whether it was a method for achieving a textural finish on a canvas, the best ways to use Shitake mushrooms in cooking or the latest natural remedy for a physical ailment. An experimenter by nature, Josh was always looking for another or better way of doing almost everything. What he valued most as an educator was being able to share his vast knowledge about the materials of art. He found new ways to utilize traditional materials and explored the use of unorthodox materials and new technologies. He encouraged his students to experiment, take risks and most of all, have fun with their art.

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