Lives and works in California
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
ARTIST BIO
Since the 1990s, Jaye Moon has been crafting interactive Braille paintings using Lego bricks. Leveraging the diverse colors and shapes of Lego pieces, Moon transcends the traditional boundaries of visual art by exploring the intricate relationship between touch and sight and creates a tactile abstract work.
Jaye Moon (b. 1963) holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute in New York. Her selected exhibitions include the Nam June Paik Art Center, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea, and the Queens Museum in New York. Moon received a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship, and an AHL Foundation Grant. Moon has participated in Nars Foundation and Fountainhead Residency in the US Popnami! Residency in Munich and CJ Art Studio Residency in Cheongju, Korea. Moon’s exhibitions were featured in Whitehot Magazine, Art in America, and Artforum. Jaye Moon is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery.
Jaye Moon is included in the New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition
….. “The heart of Greater New York dwells in P.S. 1’s basement. Amidst the antiquated machinery in the basement boiler room glistens Jennifer Cho’s “Haystacks,” straw-like bundles of sliced CDs created through a process she describes as “slow-tech.”
by Logan Hill, WIRED, April 5, 2000
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Naomi Savage, photographer, born June 25, 1927 and died at her home in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 22, 2005. While still in high school, she took a class in photography at the New School for Social Research with Berenice Abbott. Some twenty years earlier, Abbott had studied photography in Paris with Man Ray, who was Naomi Savage’s uncle. In 1946, Savage enrolled in Bennington College, where she studied art and music, but before graduating, left to be an apprentice for Man Ray in Hollywood. He taught her that photography was above all a creative process, one of many tools that could be used for the purpose of visual expression. When she returned to New York in 1948, she combined her love of music with her skill in photography by taking portraits of the best known composers of day: Aaron Copland, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, etc. (over 30 in all). Throughout her career, she experimented with the medium of photography, continuously inventing new and highly original techniques. Perhaps her best known work is a series of metal photo engravings (1972) dominating the walls of the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. In her later years, she became attracted to the enormous potential of digital imagery, experimenting with various methods to manipulate and enhance color, even using new and unconventional materials for laser printing. She exhibited widely, most recently at the Montclair Art Museum, and her photographs are included in major institutional collections throughout the United States……………..provided by Francis M. Naumann.
Francis M. Naumann is an art historian, who specializes in art of the Dada and Surrealist period. He has written extensively on the art of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. His New York Dada 1915-23 (1994) is considered the definitive history of the movement, and his “Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York” (1996) is the most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever assembled. His doctoral dissertation was on Man Ray’s early years in New York, later published as Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray (2003). Throughout his years of his research on Man Ray, he met Naomi Savage and, over the years, they became good friends.
Painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, draftsman…Man Ray has never limited himself to a single medium of artistic expression, tirelessly seeking new possibilities of creation or diversion of existing techniques. Considering art essentially as a game, he refused to attach himself to a determined style. Man Ray was born in 1980 in Philadelphia. In 1913, he discovered at the exhibition The Armory Show in New York European artists like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. With Marcel Duchamp he created and experimented with optical devices to study motion. He participated in the Dada movement in New york until 1921, when he left for France. As he arrived in Paris, Marcel Duchamp introduced him to the Parisian artistic scene. It was the beginning of an intense period of creation: photographs (fashion, portraits, art), exhibitions, films…In the interwar period Paris, Man Ray frequents all the greatest actors of creation, Dadaists, Surrealists, writers, filmmakers, fashion designers…In 1940, Man Ray had to leave France for the United States, where he realized major works like the Shakespearian paintings, etc. Man Ray returned to Paris in 1951, moved to rue Ferou where he painted, drew, wrote his memoirs and continued to use photographic processes. Thus begins the edition of his objects “Objects of my affection” first with Marcel Zerbib, then with Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray died on November 18, 1976 in Paris. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.
…………………………………………. excerpt from Man Ray International Association
Mathematical Object (Anthony) is one of some twenty photographs taken by Man Ray in 1934-35 of mathematical models located in the Institut Poincaré in Paris. Twelve of the photographs were featured in a 1936 issue of the journal Cahiers d’Art devoted to the “object” and four were exhibited in MoMA’s exhibition the same year, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism. The models were drawn to his attention by Max Ernst, who had discovered them and thought them exceptionally provocative, surreal shapes. The models were used to render complex mathematical formulae into three-dimensional form, but it was not their origin in mathematics that attracted the interests of Man Ray. “The formulas accompanying them meant nothing to me,” he later explained, “the forms themselves were as varied and authentic as any in nature” (Self-Portrait, 1963, p. 368). While living in Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, Man Ray used the photographs he had taken in the Institut Poincaré as the basis of a series of pictures that he grouped under the title “The Shakespearean Equations,” which, in true Dada and Surrealist fashion, had as little to do with Shakespeare as they did with equations. Man Ray retrieved the photographs he had printed in the 1930s on a trip back to Paris in 1947, and this example is believed to be among them. This particular print is often titled Antony, as we know that it was used as the basis for the figure of Anthony in his painting Antony and Cleopatra, 1948.
Sophie Matisse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1965. She began her studies at the Massachusetts Collage of Art in Boston and later, continued her studies at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Shortly after settling in New York City, in 1996, she began her first series of paintings, Be back in 5 minutes and has participated in many national and international exhibitions ever since. Now, she is working on a new series of paintings accompanied by a collection of short films reflecting on her memories of playing chess with her family while growing up. Her work is included in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Flint Institute of Art, The Montclair Art Museum and The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum.
BORN
1965 in Massachusetts. Lives and Works in New York
EDUCATION
1985 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1988 – 1990 École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Montclair Art Museum
The Flint Institute of Art
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 BE BACK IN 5, BAAHNG GALLERY, NEW YORK, April – May, 2020
DEPICTING MARCEL DUCHAMP, FRANCIS NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 28, 2020
CONSTRUCTION IDENTITY IN AMERICAN ART, MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 – JANUARY 5, 2020
BOHAIN ET MATISSE 1870-1903, LA MAISON FAMILIALE HENRI MATISSE, BOHAIN, FRANCE, OCTOBER 12, 2019 – MARCH 1, 2020
2018 ROSE OCEAN, TANG TEACHING MUSEUM, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 17 – MAY 20, 2018
ALAIN JACQUET & SOPHIE MATISSE, SABINE WACHTERS FINE ART, KNOKKE-ZOUTE, BELGIUM, AUGUST 3 – SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
2017 MARCEL DUCHAMP FOUNTAIN, FRANCIS NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, APRIL 20 – MAY 26, 2017
MATISSE AND AMERICAN ART, MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 5 – JUNE 15, 2017
2016 LADIES KNIGHT, WORLD CHESS HALL OF FAME, ST. LOUIS, MO, OCTOBER 29, 2015 – APRIL 1, 2016
2015 PARALLELS, TIM HUNT FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 10 – 28, 2015
PAST & PRESENT, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, June 4 – April 21, 2015
STARING BACK, FLEMING MUSEUM OF ART, VERMONT, FEBRUARY 3 – JUNE 21, 2015
2014 LE SHOW DES AMIS, SHOWROOM, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 12 – 21, 2014
2013 LUNCH WITH OLYMPIA, YALE UNIVERSITY, CONNECTICUT, SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 21, 2013
BONJOUR MONSIEUR MATISSE! RENCONTRE(S), MAMAC DE NICE, FRANCE, JUNE 21 – NOVEMBER 24, 2013
NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE: AN HOMAGE, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 15 – MARCH 29 ,2013
2012 SOPHIE MATISSE: IT’S TIME, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, MAY 2 – JUNE 15, 2012.
2010 SECONDE MAIN, MUSEE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, FRANCE, MARCH 25 – OCTOBER 24, 2010
SOPHIE MATISSE, THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NY, JANUARY 22 – MAY 22, 2010
THE VISIBLE VAGINA, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, JANUARY 27 – MARCH 20, 2010
VERMEER. THE ART OF PAINTING, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM VIENNA, VIENNA AUSTRIA, JANUARY 25 TO APRIL 25, 2010
2009 SPECIAL EDITION (GOLD) PERFUME BOTTLES, A COLLABORATION WITH KILIAN HENNESSY, DECEMBER, 2009
THE ART OF CHESS, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 30, 2009
THE ART OF THE GAME, SPECIAL EDITION CHESS SETS. BEYOND THE BORDER INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, SAN DIEGO, CA , SEPTEMBER 2 – 4, 2009
BLACK MADONNA, HP GARCIA GALLERY, NEW YORK,(CURATOR: LISA PAUL STREITFELD)
2008 SPECIAL EDITION PERFUME BOTTLES, A COLLABORATION WITH KILIAN HENNESSY
PENTIMENTI, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, MARCH 14 – APRIL 30, 2008
2007 THE DEMOISELLES REVISITED, GROUP EXHIBITION, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 21, 2007
FRENCH KISSES, JGM GALERIE. PPARIS, MAY 24th – JUNE 30th
2006 SOPHIE MATISSE: BE BACK IN 5 MINUTES AND ZEBRA STRIPE PAINTINGS, SALT LAKE ART CENTER, SALT LAKE CITY, JANUARY – MARCH 2006 (CURATOR: JIM EDWARDS)
2005 SOPHIE MATISSE: THE ZEBRA STRIPE PAINTINGS, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOV 18 – DEC 30, 2005
SOPHIE MATISSE’S GUERNICA, FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
SOPHIE MATISSE DRAWINGS, ORGANIZED BY THE BLUE HERON PRESS,PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, NEW YORK, (CURATOR: JUDITH GOLDMAN)
SOPHIE MATISSE, nKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, KATONAH, NEW YORK, JULY- AUGUST (CURATOR: MIMI THOMPSON)
2004 SELF-PORTRIATS, DEITCH PROJECTS, NEW YORK (CURATOR: DODIE KAZANJIAN)
ON LINE, FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY, NEW YORK
2003 AFTERSHOCK: THE LEGACY OF THE READYMADE IN AMERICAN POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART, DICKINSON GALLERY, NEW YORK.
SOPHIE MATISSE DOES GUERNICA, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NY
2002 SOPHIE MATISSE, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK (FIRST SOLO SHOW IN NEW YORK)
2001 SOPHIE MATISSE, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS HEADQUARTERS, BOSTON (CURATOR: CAROL WARNER)
2000 THE 100 SMILES OF THE MONNA LISA, METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM, TOKYO; SHIZUOKA MUSEUM OF ART AND THE HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART (CURATOR: JEAN-MICHEL RIBETTES)
1999 REAL TO SURREAL, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (CURATOR: MARC SINK)
1999 RE: DUCHAMP, ABRAHAM LUBELSKY GALLERY, NEW YORK (CURATOR: MIKE BIDLO)
1998 ACTS OF FAITH, GARRISON, NEW YORK (CURATOR: WILLOUGHBY SHARP)
Sophie Matisse was interviewed by BBC TWO on “Becoming Matisse”
Lives and works in California
Janet Taylor Pickett (b. 1948) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan School of Art in 1970, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design in 1972. Devel-oping a groundbreaking visual vocabulary to probe themes of Blackness, identity, and the complexity of lived experience, Taylor Pickett continued her studies at Parsons School of Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and The Vermont Studio School. She taught the History of African American Art at both Essex County College and Bloomfield College for over thirty years and has received grants and fellowships from The New Jersey Council of the Arts Grant, The Ford Foundation, and the Mid-Atlantic States Art Council. Her artist residencies have included the Pilchuck Glass School, Val- paraiso Foundation (Majorca, Spain), University of Eastern New Mexico, Visiting Artist Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Lafayette College. A fore-runner in contemporary painting whose work has been compared to that of Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, Taylor Pickett has had her work showcased in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as in private collections. Her masterwork, “And She Was Born” (2020) was featured on the cover of the exhibition catalog for Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century (2021) at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. Other selected exhibitions include Progressions: A Cultural Legacy at MoMA/PS1, African American Women Artists and the Power of their Gaze at the David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, The Matisse Series at the Montclair Art Museum, The Atlantic World-Layered Histories at the Harvard Art Museums, Hagar’s Dress at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and Necessary Memories at Jennifer Baahng Gallery. Additionally, her work has been shown at The Studio Museum of Harlem in New York, Howard University, and Telfair University, among others. Taylor Pickett is also the former Chair of the African American Cultural Committee at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. Janet Taylor Pickett is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery.
Janet Taylor Pickett is included in Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM
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