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he brightens the world and lights up 
room after room with her abstract, 
geometric paintings. Artist Jennifer 
Kroll of Birmingham is about as bold as you 
can get when it comes to color — she’ll put 
purple next to bright orange or align yellow, 
hot pink and blue without batting an eye.
And somehow, every color combination 
works, from pops of neon green to navy to 
aqua blue.
“I’m fascinated by colors and shapes, and 
I love experimenting with different combi-
nations of the two,
” she says. “My paintings 
are often the result of these explorations. 
Sometimes new ideas happen by accident as 
I mix colors and move lines.
” 
Kroll started her business, Jennifer Kroll 

Fine Art, in 2018. She was churning out 
eye-catching acrylic paintings on canvas 
in her home studio as a hobby when her 
husband, Todd, urged her to post a picture 
on social media. She did, and orders and 
inquiries started pouring in. Her paintings 
are now in homes and commercial build-
ings across the world from Australia to 
California, Florida and Washington, D.C.
The Jewish student organization, Hillel, 
recently commissioned six large paintings 
that will hang in a new, modern building 
at George Washington University in D.C., 
where her oldest daughter, Lilley, attends 
college. Her younger daughter, Marlee, 17, 
is graduating from Frankel Jewish Academy 
this year.

“I can’t believe I’m able to do something 
I love and make a business doing it,
” Kroll 
says. “I’ve had a lot of commissions during 
COVID-19. No two paintings [or sets of 
paintings] are the same.
”
Kroll and her family attend Temple Shir 
Shalom in West Bloomfield. She is a gradu-
ate of Groves High School in Beverly Hills 
and holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts 
from Eastern Michigan University. In col-
lege, she studied fiber arts and tried several 
other mediums. The one thing she never 
worked with was acrylic paint. Today, that’s 
her go-to product for laying color on thick.
“I like solid colors, and I don’t like to see 
any brush strokes,
” she says. “Depending 
on the design and size of the canvas, it can 

Clockwise: Jennifer Kroll with a piece from her “Barcode” collection. Four canvases create a “Fair & Square” design. Six of Kroll’s paintings 
brighten a wall. 

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ARTS&LIFE
ART

COURTESY OF JENNIFER KROLL

Artist Jennifer Kroll makes a statement 
with her bold, colorful creations.

Artist Jennifer Kroll makes a statement 

Paintings
 
that
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ROBIN SCHWARTZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

