Jan Gendron

was born in New York City in 1949. He spent most of his childhood overseas with his family in the Philippines and in Tokyo, Japan. It was in Tokyo he had his first showing at the American Club when he was sixteen. At eighteen he returned to America and attended Vesper George School of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. It was at Vesper George he was introduced to Robert Cormier and Robert Douglas Hunter, who were trained in the academic tradition of drawing and painting.  Jan entered the atelier of Robert Cormier, who trained under Ives Gammell. The atelier was structured based on nineteenth century French academic training.  This lineage of students and teachers, known as The Boston School of Painting, dates back to the 1890's. Jan's work carries on this tradition both in his work and in his pedagogy as a teacher.