GARDEN OF DELIGHT

GARDEN OF DELIGHT Museo del Prado

GARDEN OF DELIGHT

December 3 – 23, 2022 

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3, 10AM – 5PM 

JENNIFER BAAHNG is pleased to invite you to Garden of Delight, a launching exhibition for the BAAHNG SHOP, from December 3 to 23, 2022. Jubilant and scintillating, luscious and succulent, the exhibition showcases nearly one hundred works of art and art objects by the gallery artists, and by celebrated artists of Modern and Contemporary Art. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the “36th Annual Miracle on Madison Avenue,” an annual one-day fundraising event, organized by The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for its pediatric programs. 

Packed with a sumptuous cornucopia of oil paintings, pastel drawings, ceramics, hand-painted books and moving sculptures, Garden of Delight is a festive and fantastical tableaux of visual delectables. A trove of glittering and luminous surfaces, ranging from the pocket-sized to the formidable, the exhibition offers treasures both tiny and substantial. Guests will be greeted by soldered compact discs, miniature paintings and a gold-plated lollipop on velvet plush. Like an advent calendar, pastel drawings by Michael McClard, collaged boxes by Janet Taylor Pickett and The Taillight Series by Sharon Butler are installed as a seasonal dense-hang. Wall-papered with Zhang Hongtu’s iPad drawings and Eric Brown’s woven paintings, the installation entices and beguiles. Meanwhile, a painted snowboard soars across the white wall, kicking up “flying art”—hand-painted fans by Jackie Matisse, conjuring snow. A deck of baseball card-sized portraits by Jeff Gabel depicts fictive strangers that breathe with a gentle gravity, and Lego-constructed handbags by Jaye Moon deliver Braille messages ranging from the cheeky “Text Me,” to the profound. 

BAAHNG SHOP, the online shop of JENNIFER BAAHNG, offers a curated selection of books, exhibition catalogues, unique objects, limited editions, and artist designed accessories. 

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NEXT MOVES

Sharon Butler


SHARON BUTLER

Next Moves

September 15 – November 15, 2022

Opening and Artist’s Reception: Thursday, September 15th, 6-8PM

JENNIFER BAAHNG GALLERY is pleased to present NEXT MOVES, the gallery’s inaugural solo exhibition of Sharon Butler’s work, and to announce its representation of the artist. The exhibition showcases a group of recent multi-panel paintings and selected mixed-media drawings. As conferred, these works articulate the pulse and the trajectory of Butler’s work, transposing graphic differences and traversing dimensions with elegance and wit. NEXT MOVES runs from September 15 through October 22, with an artist’s reception at the gallery on Thursday, September 15th, from 6–8PM. 

In 2016, Sharon Butler began making digital drawings on a phone app called PicsArt. They were meant to be seen on a smartphone, and she posted one each morning on Instagram as a way of marking daily life. Over the course of four years, she made and posted more than 1200 of them. It was a “growing thinking” and a “time in an alley waiting it out.” Eventually, the impulse to paint – born of the irresoluteness that courses through all painters  took hold. In 2020, to facilitate the transformation of the tiny digital drawings into full-sized paintings, she began drawing geometric grids on canvases. The digital drawings encapsulated in small squares on the mobile screen, infinitely scalable and potentially endless, were transfigured into permanent building blocks.

In Butler’s work, the grid functions metaphorically as a pulsating chord; a portal through which she gets from point A to point B. As such, it encapsulates activity, gathering meaning and power over time. So deployed, the grid builds on Butler’s interest in wabi-sabi and the provisional approach that she has called, in The Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere, “casualism.” Like Piet Mondrian’s valedictory Broadway Boogie Woogie, her paintings apprehend the syncopation and movement of New York City, exploring seriality with conceptual rigor, opting for a serendipitous, ironic approach.

The multi-panel paintings in the exhibition are monumental versions of smaller solo works. They embrace the history of painting and abstraction by way of idiosyncratic conjunctions and addenda. They resound with color, texture, and light, while also establishing compositional formality, tactile physicality, and emotional resonance. These liberal re-imaginings of images that were once originally pixelated retain an expressively vibrational quality. At the same time, an exuberant materiality anchors convergent edges, shapes, and patterns that afford the work visual stability.

In artcritical, critic Laurie Fendrich described Butler’s paintings as “beautiful and grittily compelling.” Fendrich added that “the future of abstraction will be owned by those who accept a post-compositional approach to their paintings. Right now, Sharon Butler has the best of both worlds.” In NEXT MOVES, Sharon Butler proposes restlessness within the strictures of painting, courting risk and glory, and we are in her church.

Sharon Butler’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in numerous publications, including New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, The James Kalm Report, and Time Out New York. She has been awarded grants from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Eastern Connecticut State University. She has held residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Pocket Utopia, and Counterproof Press. She has served as a visiting professor, artist, and/or critic at Brown University, Cornell University, the Hoffberger School of Painting (MICA), Penn State, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of Visual Arts, the Parsons School of Design at the New School, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the founder of the art blogazine, Two Coats of Paint. She currently teaches in the MFA programs at the New York Academy of Art and the University of Connecticut. 

Sharon Butler lives and works in New York.

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Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
Sharon Butler

NEXT MOVES

Sharon Butler
Sept 15 - Nov 15, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022

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TANGO

TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition

July 13 - August 17, 2022

Romare Bearden
Sharon Butler
Chun Kwang Young
Jeff Gabel
Michael McClard
Mario Merz
Jaye Moon
Mr.
Janet Taylor Pickett
Osvaldo Romberg
David Salle
Zhang Hongtu

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June 15 – Sept 27, 2023
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TANGO

Summer Exhibition
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Pitches & Scripts

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
Sharon Butler

NEXT MOVES

Sharon Butler
Sept 15 - Nov 15, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
Michael McClard

BIZARRE DELIGHT

Michael McClard
Jan 26 - Feb 28, 2022
Pitches & Scripts

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
GANGNAM, SEOUL PERFECT LOVERS August 16 - October 19, 2024

TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

Sept 5 - Oct 19, 2024
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
snowboard

MR.

Snowboard
MR.

MR.

TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
Zhang Hongtu at Museo Picasso Málaga 

Zhang Hongtu at Museo Picasso Málaga 

October 3, 2023 - March 31, 2024
Madison Ave New York Picasso, Welcome to America June 15 – July 31, 2023

PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

June 15 – Sept 27, 2023
Pitches & Scripts

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
(DE)CONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND BEYOND November 13, 2022 to March 12, 2023

Zhang Hongtu lectures and exhibits at the Wende Museum

November 13, 2022 - March 12, 2023
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
Zhang Hongtu

VAN GOGH / BODHIDHARMA

Zhang Hongtu
March 25 - April 27, 2022
LOVE DIFFERENCE

LOVE DIFFERENCE

Eric Brown, Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu
May 15 - June 15, 2021

SHARON BUTLER

Sharon Butler

SHARON BUTLER

Born 1959, Connecticut, USA

Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

MFA, Art, University of Connecticut, 1994

BFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, 1987

BA, Art History, Tufts University, MA, 1981

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Next Moves,” solo, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, NY, 2022”

“Morning in America,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY,  2021

“New Paintings,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

“Good Morning Drawings,” SEASON, Seattle, WA, 2017

“Sharon Butler,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2016

“New Social Situations,” Beacon, NY., 2015

“Dense Surveillance,” SUNY Westchester, NY, 2013

“Precisionist Casual,” Pocket Utopia, NY, 2013

“Gone Wrong,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2012

“Sharon Butler: New Paintings,” John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2009

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Spaces of Memory & Imagination,” Silber Gallery, Goucher College, MD, 2023

“In the Studio,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2023

“Pitches and Scripts,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2023

“Garden of Delight,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022

“Guided by Voices,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2022

“TANGO,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022

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Conjunctions, Addenda, Commutations

A Conversation with Raphael Rubinstein and Sharon Butler

Saturday, October 8, at 2PM at Jennifer Baahng Gallery

On October 8, 2022, noted poet and art critic Raphael Rubinstein sat down with gallery artist Sharon Butler to discuss “Next Moves” (Sept 15 – Nov 15, 2022) , Sharon Butler’s latest solo exhibition at JENNIFER BAAHNG. In this BAAHNG SPOTLIGHT, Rubinstein and Butler discuss Butler’s subtle explorations of painting vernacular, in particular, her use of digital sketches as the ground for a recent series of luminous, gridded works. Raphael Rubinstein is a professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.

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January 20 - March 11, 2023
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Sharon Butler
Sept 15 - Nov 15, 2022
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TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022

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ALREADY AND NOT YET

Eric Brown

ALREADY AND NOT YET

By Eric Brown

May 5 - June 25, 2022

JENNIFER BAAHNG is pleased to announce the gallery representation of Eric Brown and his inaugural show, Already and Not Yet.  The exhibition is a showcase of small and easel-sized paintings and works on paper created since 2020.  Central to this new body of work is process.  Brown employs the sacred process of repetitive mark-making and a meticulous and personal approach to painting to create literal and visual weavings.  The resultant paintings appear as handmade textiles that invite an up-close looking.  Already and Not Yet evokes metaphors of strength and vulnerability, imperfection, mending, and domesticity.  The exhibition will be on view from May 5 through June 11, 2022, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 5, 2022, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

At first glance, the works in Already and Not Yet suggest woven textiles, but they are not paintings of textiles or any singular subject, moment, or linear plot.  Drawing on philosopher Roland Barthes’ theory that text is a living fabric interwoven with multiple meanings, Brown shows in these works a striving for a new painterly language.  Where it is the nature of semantics to constrain and shape meaning, his painted marks-on-canvas offer a “longhand,” open to the vastness of interpretation, capable of suggesting more than just partial answers.  

The Particulars of Rapture (2022), named after a poem by Wallace Stevens, is comprised of three paintings that echo each other with similar themes but individually look different.  A visual tension materialized, the work is an elegant manifestation of the cerebral conundrums questioned by the artist.  Painted freehand, there is a tenderness of human engagement.  

The concept of “already but not yet” was proposed by theologian Geerhardus Vos, who believed that we simultaneously live in the present age and await an “age to come.”  Brown observed that amidst the unimaginable loss and suffering especially during the early days of the pandemic, even in our collective wait for a return to “normalcy,” we continue to live.  

Spirit, Groan Inwardly While We Wait (2020), created around the first weeks of the pandemic, is the source from which the rest of the works in this show originated.  It consists of four various sized panels configured into a cross with an implied fifth panel in the center.  Determinedly cross-hatched, through symbolism and abstraction, the work refers to human form and nature.  It is calm, temperamental, compelling, and yearning for everyday small miracles.  

Intimate, quotidian, diaristic, potent, the works in Already and Not Yet are neither realist nor expressionist.  They are direct and unadorned.  Repeated delicate marks seemingly fluctuate with natural light and heave in breathing spaces.  Already and Not Yet proposes that the spiritual in art may happen on a small scale, rather than in grand, orchestral gestures, and reveals the artist in pursuit of a new abstract vocabulary.  

Eric Brown received a B.A. in Studio Art from Vassar College.  In 2020, he received a Master of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary.  He is a painter and a chaplain.  He is the recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship (2016) and was a Visiting Artist and Scholar at the American Academy in Rome (2015).  He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at Ille Arts, Crush Curatorial, James W. Palmer Gallery, and Theodore: Art.  His works have been featured in artcritical, ARTnews, The New Criterion, The New York Observer, and The New York Times.  He divides his time between New York City and Sag Harbor.  

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ALREADY AND NOT YET

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May 15 - June 15, 2021

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VAN GOGH / BODHIDHARMA

Zhang Hongtu

ZHANG HONGTU

Van Gogh/Bodhidharma
March 25 – April 27, 2022

Van Gogh/Bodhidharma (2007 – 2014) by Zhang Hongtu consists of 39 ink paintings created over the course of seven years. They are the Vincent van Gogh self-portraits remade in the style of the classical Zen portraits of the Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, the founding patriarch of Zen Buddhism. Zhang’s morphing of van Gogh and Bodhidharma into one is a remarkable display of the artist’s masterful ability to dissolve distinctions between two icons. This notion of breaking down impossible barriers has been the lodestar of Zhang’s life and five-decade-long career. As a Muslim outsider in China, then as a Chinese exile in America, Zhang has continually sought, through his works, to disintegrate dividing walls in culture, politics, and time. His works involve thoughtful juxtapositions of critique with humor, and the appropriation of images of authority figures and cultural icons, for the purpose of deflating the power of such formidably divisive influences. His work captures and contemplates a multi-layered discourse on competing ideas and proposes universality and relevancy in unexpected ways. 

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Zhang Hongtu at Museo Picasso Málaga 

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PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

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Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
(DE)CONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND BEYOND November 13, 2022 to March 12, 2023

Zhang Hongtu lectures and exhibits at the Wende Museum

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TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
Zhang Hongtu

VAN GOGH / BODHIDHARMA

Zhang Hongtu
March 25 - April 27, 2022
LOVE DIFFERENCE

LOVE DIFFERENCE

Eric Brown, Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu
May 15 - June 15, 2021

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WINGS OF DESIRE

Wings of Desire | Jaye Moon

WINGS OF DESIRE

A Brief Survey of Sculptural Paintings by Jaye Moon

March 25 – April 27, 2022

Jennifer Baahng Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery representation of Jaye Moon, and her solo exhibition, WINGS OF DESIRE, a brief survey of sculptural paintings from 2012 to 2022, with a focus on her work with braille. WINGS OF DESIRE is an exhibition that highlights Moon’s praxis of using braille as an art medium to create freer and wider ways to communicate and open possibilities to everyone. The exhibition will run from March 25 through April 27, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, March 25, 2022, from 3pm to 7pm.

Viewers will experience Moon’s work through the brilliant colors, bold patterns, and the novelty of using universally appealing, unpolitical, mathematical toys as an art medium. Moon’s LEGO paintings also contain messages transcribed in braille. Braille, which is not a language but a code into which many languages can be transcribed, consists of six dots arranged in the formation of a rectangle. Moon uses braille in her work, presented either as dots arranged in a specific formation, or presented as numbers (with each number signifying what would have been a dot’s position in the rectangle). What viewers will find coded in the braille in Moon’s work are the intricate human stories that we share.

In the poetic and eponymous work, Wings of Desire (2022), LEGO bricks are sculpted to visually capture the opening scene of Wim Wenders’ film Wings of Desire (1987). It depicts an aerial view of two invisible angels looking over a city, and the segregation and power that cause one lonesome angel to feel isolated and desirous to connect with people. It also contains a specific pattern of raised dots on the surface, which form the braille transcription of the script excerpt of a poignant moment in the film. The braille is conspicuous but also seamlessly blended into the background. It is tactile and in plain sight for all to see, but at the same time, it transmits messages just for the traditionally excluded.

In the visually striking, Neon work, People Like You Need To Fuck People Like Me (2012), Moon’s rework of Tracey Emin’s 2007 iconic piece, Moon transcribed Emin’s tantalizing, confessional message into braille presented as numbers. It is another example of Moon using the mode of language for the unseen, for its visual and universal utility, this time to shatter the ice in the silenced discussion of female sexuality. Emin’s feminist message is widely received in the West, yet in many Asian cultures, expressing sexuality, especially female sexuality, is discouraged. By translating Emin’s raw message into numerical code, Korea-born Moon opens up the possibility to hail the same message in the face of discrimination, without fear of ostracism or penalty.

Moon uses braille as an art medium to break new ground in the contemporary human condition of isolation caused by barriers of sexuality and disability. She uses braille because it is based on binary logic that can transcend political, cultural, and social structures. It is also the mode of language for the people who are often overlooked.

WINGS OF DESIRE is an elegant and robust display of stunning, intricate, and inventive works that are both exploratory and instructive: as we shift towards more impersonal communication, we may lose the complexity of our own identities, but we also discover new ways to see our identities and gain a greater understanding of each other. In this pursuit of her own distinctive culture, Jaye Moon is undeterred.

Jaye Moon Soars On Wings of Desire by Paul Laster

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BIZARRE DELIGHT

Michael McClard

BIZARRE DELIGHT

January 26 – February 28, 2022

Jennifer Baahng Gallery is pleased to announce BIZARRE DELIGHT, Michael McClard’s solo exhibition and third exhibition at the gallery.  BIZARRE DELIGHT showcases two dozen pastel drawings produced between 1983 and 1984 that have been largely unseen for many years, and is a singular opportunity for the New York audience to experience the artist’s revelatory work.  The exhibition will run from January 26 through February 28, 2022.  

BIZARRE DELIGHT is a pantheon of imaginary characters – grotesque or elegant, phantasmal or archetypal – that beckons our human interest in identifying faces and registering the meaning behind a face’s expression.  These works are neither portraits nor cartoons, but occasional drawings, and are notable not just for the character or icon depicted, but their facial expressions.  Expression is the cinema of what is in our minds.  In his works, which seethe with figurative content and mine a strong vein of humor, the artist has used expression to say something.

Michael McClard draws in authenticity.  He made these works by simply giving in to the impulse to make gestural, uncontrived marks on a surface, and then elaborating on what those marks suggested.  Born out of his personal stream of consciousness, the resulting art objects are neither bounded by stylistic nor topical constraints, and though idiosyncratic in nature, offer the possibility of speaking universally to other members of the human collective in the affirmative.  These fantastical drawings, which so deftly contain the fleeting moments captured in one’s expression, were born out of the artist’s simple desire to create them:  “I make these objects to amuse myself and because I want them in my world.”

Born in 1947, Michael McClard received his BFA in 1971 from the San Francisco Art Institute with a Peabody Award in Sculpture.  He is the recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, in multimedia and as a visual artist. He was also the founding member and first president of the New York City artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. (“Colab”).  His works have been exhibited in many notable shows, including at the Whitney Museum of Art, Foundation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain in France, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, Queens Museum in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a large feature solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery.  His art has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Magazine, and The Village Voice.  He has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the San Francisco Art Institute in California, and Parsons School of Design in New York. 

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Michael McClard
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MICHAEL MCCLARD

Michael McClard

MICHAEL MCCLARD

Lives and works in California

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JAYE MOON

Jaye Moon
Jaye Moon Pink-Camo, 2025 1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum 20 x 20 inches
Jaye Moon
Pink-Camo, 2025
1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum
20 x 20 inches

“The pressure we feel from society is a battle we fight within ourselves. Self-acceptance holds the power to end this internal struggle and set us free.”

Jaye Moon A Prologue, 2025 2200 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum 20 x 20 inches
Jaye Moon
A Prologue, 2025
2200 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum
20 x 20 inches

죽는날 까지 하늘을 우러러 한점 부끄럼이 없기를 잎새에 이는 바람에도 나는 괴로워 했다 별을 노래하는 마음으로 모든 죽어가는 것을 사랑해야지 그리고 나에게 주어진 길을 걸어가야겠다. 오늘밤에도 별이 바람에 스치운다.”  윤동주 서시

Jaye Moon Our Differences, 2022 1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum 20 x 20 inches
Jaye Moon
Our Differences, 2022
1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum
20 x 20 inches

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences,” – Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984

Jaye Moon Fluid Spectrum, 2024 1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum 20 x 20 inches
Jaye Moon
Fluid Spectrum, 2024
1500 Lego bricks in Braille on plexiglas, aluminum
20 x 20 inches

“Identity is not a fixed point, but a fluid spectrum. Embracing  non-binary perspectives allows us to see the limitless potential within every human being.”

JAYE MOON

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

ARTIST BIO

Jaye Moon (b. 1963) has been crafting interactive braille paintings with LEGO bricks since the 1990s. Her LEGO Braille paintings demonstrate her innovative approach to accessible art, emphasizing inclusivity and tactile engagement. In these works, Moon translates excerpts from movie scripts, song lyrics, poetries, and prose in literature with a distinct approach, including her writing.  Her work is an abstract painting for all viewers with and without the ability to decipher Braille. Touching the surface of the work transcends its aesthetics and takes on the meaning embodied within.

Moon’s work has been exhibited in Brussels, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo. Her museum exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum in New York, the Nam June Paik Art Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, and the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea. Her artwork has been reviewed in art publications, including Art in America, Artforum, Artnet, Time Out, and News Week Magazine, and featured in the Korean middle school art textbook. She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute.  Jaye Moon is the 2025 Hall of Fame inductee of the New York Foundation of Art and is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York and Seoul.

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Jaye Moon

NYFA’s 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, New York

Gallery artist Jaye Moon was honored at The New York Foundation for the Arts for the 2025 Hall of Fame Benefit on Tuesday, March 18, held at Gotham Hall in New York.  Breaking barriers, her LEGO Braille paintings demonstrate her innovative approach to accessible art, emphasizing inclusivity and tactile engagement.  NYFA’s annual Hall of Fame Benefit is a vibrant celebration of the arts and an acknowledgment of the remarkable artists who have made profound impacts in the arts and those who sustain artistic vision with unwavering integrity.

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Wings of Desire

An Interview with Jaye Moon by Hyewon Yi

April 30, at 5PM at Jennifer Baahng Gallery

On April 30, 2022, in conjunction with the opening of gallery artist Jaye Moon’s solo exhibition “Wings of Desire” (March 25 – April 27, 2022), the artist was interviewed by Hyewon Yi, the Director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY Westbury. The conversation between Yi and Moon covers Moon’s career trajectory from her days as an art student in Korea to her recent practice, which focuses on visual communication with particular references to film. “Wings of Desire” featured Moon’s ongoing body of conceptual work that utilizes a numerical system and the colors of Legos within the binary logic of Braille.

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