Jenny Kendler's work revolves around the theme of human beings' relationship with nature and the natural world.

All of the profits from the sale of her works are donated to environmental charities.

Kendler's delicate drawings and tiny sculptural terrariums show women in intimate physical relation to the environment, directly confronting that erroneous notion that we human beings are somehow separate from and above the natural world. Kendler’s subjects empower themselves through their ability to accept, understand and dissolve into nature, growing plants from their bodies, adopting manes in unlikely places, or “giving birth” to streams of tiny fish.

Kendler’s ongoing passion to explore how human actions, policies, memes and desires affect and interface with the natural world is the vector for her work, focusing on habitat loss, climate change, the complexity of ecosystems, and the nature of human sexuality and gender as it relates to our often denied animal origins. Exploring and attempting to bridge the widening schism between Nature and Culture, Kendler’s work considers human beings’ estranged relationship with the ecosystems we and other species must share. Endangered and extinct species especially take center-stage as totems of our disconnect with the natural world and sign-posts of loss.

Kendler re-imagines the Naturalist of the past through the lens of modern ecology, feminism and environmentalism. If the Naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries sought to lay personal claim to the natural world and contain it in a specimen cabinet, Kendler presents her intimate drawings and sculptures as a definitive counterpoint to the view of nature as something to be possessed. Her work suggests instead, that it is we who are possessed by nature.

While cross-pollinating genres: drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, video, and narrative fiction, Kendler creates work that connects us to the world --- intellectually and emotionally --- to rekindle feelings of interconnectedness, wonderment and love. She employing elements of magic, myth, and fantasy and uses delicacy, fragility, ornamentation and intricacy to echo the subtle and mysterious relationships of the natural world. In this way, her work stands in opposition to spectacle culture, the "dumbing-down" of the world, and works of failure, irony, and indifference.

Kendler believes that art has a vital role to play in our most desperate crisis between Nature and Culture, lest one destroy the other. Through her work these questions are raised: How has our environment shaped us? How should we shape our environment? And how can we shape a future that will protect and serve not only our own species, but our many beautiful and fascinating neighbors?

Presenting moments of ecological crisis or wonder, Kendler hands us this tenuous thread to the natural world --- shadowing forth possibilities of ecological attunement and resolution.