JENNIFER CHO

Jennifer Cho

….. “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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WOLF KAHN

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NAOMI SAVAGE

Naomi Savage

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. 

 

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MAN RAY

Man Ray

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.

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SOPHIE MATISSE

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)

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JANET TAYLOR PICKETT

Janet Taylor Pickett

JANET TAYLOR PICKETT

Lives and works in California

ARTIST BIO

Janet Taylor Pickett (b. 1948) earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan School of Art in 1970, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design in 1972. She pioneered a groundbreaking visual language to explore themes of Blackness, identity, and the complexities of lived experience. She furthered her education at Parsons School of Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Vermont Studio School, where she had the honor of collaborating with Sam Gilliam. She devoted over thirty years to teaching and developing curricula focused on the History of African American Art at Essex County College and Bloomfield College. Additionally, she was a founding member of Montclair University’s African American Studies program. Her academic and artistic distinctions include grants and fellowships from the New Jersey Council of the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Mid-Atlantic States Art Council. Taylor Pickett previously served as Chair of the African American Cultural Committee at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. Her artist residencies include the Pilchuck Glass School, the Valparaiso Foundation in Majorca, Spain, and the University of Eastern New Mexico. She has also been a Visiting Artist at the University of Wisconsin and Lafayette College. Moreover, Janet Taylor Pickett delivered the keynote address for the Penny W. Stamps Commencement 2024 at the University of Michigan.

Through the development of an innovative visual vocabulary, AKIMBO EXOTICA, coined by JENNIFER BAAHNG, Janet Taylor Pickett has established herself as a prominent figure in contemporary painting. She is widely recognized as a pioneering female painter whose work is inspired by Romare Bearden, Bette Saar, Sam Gilliam, and Henri Matisse. Her work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows across the country and internationally, and is part of many public and private art collections. Her works have been displayed at esteemed institutions such as The Studio Museum in Harlem, Howard University, and Telfair Museums, among others. Her notable work, “And She Was Born” (2020), was prominently 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. Important museum 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 Arts, as well as exhibitions organized by African Friends of Museums in Israel, Western Washington University Museum, SUNY Old Westbury, The Studio Museum of Harlem, Howard University, Telfair Museums, a Smithsonian affiliate The Morris Museum, Denver Art Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art, Fairfield University Art Museum, Hammonds House Museum, Northern Illinois University Museum, and Brandywine Workshop & Archive. Janet Taylor Pickett is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery.

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Janet Taylor Pickett
The Stamps Commencement 2024 Keynote Speaker
December 19, 2024, at the University Of Michigan

Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, presented the life and career of the Stamps Commencement 2024 speaker, Janet Taylor Pickett, on December 19, 2024.  In this video, Taylor Pickett discusses her initial interest in making art, her time as a student at U-M, and the challenges and successes she’s had as an artist throughout her career.

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Necessary Memories

A Conversation with Marion K. Maneker and Janet Taylor Pickett

Tuesday, September 14, at 5PM at Jennifer Baahng Gallery

On September 14th, 2021, ARTnews President and Editorial Director Marion K. Maneker joined artist Janet Taylor Pickett for a discussion of “Necessary Memories” (Sept 14 – Nov 20, 2021),      her solo exhibition at JENNIFER BAAHNG. The show chronicles Taylor Pickett’s journey as an artist, showcasing selected works from the 1980’s through 2021. In their conversation, Maneker and Taylor Pickett discuss how Blackness functions as what Taylor Pickett calls a “declarative statement” in her work, and the role that history and narrative play in her practice. Born in Ann Arbor Michigan, Taylor Pickett is a mixed media artist whose work is inspired by her life experience as an African American woman.

 

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June 2025
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May 30 - June 29, 2025
Janet Taylor Pickett Entering the Gee’s Bend, 2013 Acrylic, gouache, watercolor, graphite, photos on Arches paper 30 x 22 in.

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April – May, 2025
TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE September 3 – November 2, 2024 HANNAM, SEOUL

TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

Sept 3 - Nov 2, 2024
GANGNAM, SEOUL PERFECT LOVERS August 16 - October 19, 2024

TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

Sept 5 - Oct 19, 2024
The Muse, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 48x48 in.

PRIDE AND INSOUCIANCE

February - April 2024

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SHELTER SERRA

Education:

1996    MFA, Painting & Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1994    BA, Studio Art, University of California at Santa Cruz, California

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2016    “House on Fire”, Baahng Gallery, New York

2016    “ARRAY”, Coburn Projects, London

2014    “Canopy”, Mead Carney Fine Art, London

2013    “Crossfade”, BTW Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

            “Balance of Trade”, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

            “Loaded”, Paul Kasmin Gallery Shop, NYC

2012    “Endless Time”, Beams B Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010    “Dark Castle”, David Castillo Gallery Annex, Miami, FL

2009    “Atmosphere”, Fuse Gallery, New York City, NY

2008    “Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars”, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY

            “Del Monte Gold”, AFP Gallery, New York City, NY

2006    “Pax Americana”, Cystem Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999    “Invisible”, Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2017   “True Grit”, Baahng Gallery, NYC

2015    

            “Summer Group Show”, Mead Carney FIne Art, London

            “From Here”, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA

            “A Bi-Coastal Dialogue”, Zener Schon Contemporary Art, Mill Valley, CA

2014    “Pop Sculpture – Pop Culture, Leila Heller Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Shock of the New”, Mead Carney Fine Art, Tivat, Montenegro

             “What is, Isn’t”, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL

2013    “Seventh-Inning Stretch”, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2012    “Bad For You”, Shirazu Gallery, London

            “Nosebleed”, Fuse Gallery, New York City, NY

            “of White”, Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT

            “Here Lies Georges Wildenstein”, Primary Projects, Miami, FL

2011    “MAKE Skateboards”, I-20 Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Domestic Goods”, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2010    “Look Again”, Marlborough Chelsea, New York City, NY

            “Shred”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Weight Perception”, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009    “State of the Art: New York”, Urbis Art Centre, Manchester, England

            “Insideout”, Someone’s Garden , Tokyo, Japan

            “Sanzaru”, Geisai #12, Tokyo, Japan

            

2008    “Five Energy, # 3”, Art Space 201, Sapporo, Japan

            “You Can Go Your Own Way”, Renwick Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Ornament”, Bravin Lee Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Big Kids Little Kids”, Cinder’s Gallery, Brooklyn

            “Space 1026 Show” 222 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002   “Scratch Off the Serial”, ICA, Philadelphia, PA

           “Locomotion”, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MA

2001    “Sunshine” Alleged Gallery, NYC, New York City, NY

            “Flip Book Show”, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

1999    “Coup de Etat”, Alleged Gallery, NYC, New York City, NY

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NAM JUNE PAIK

At the Art Taipei’s invitation for their 2008 Year Project, “Art & Tech – Wandering”, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts presented Nam June Paik’s “Beuys Voice” for the special exhibition during Art Taipei 2008.

 

Nam June Paik

Beuys Voice

1990

265 x 188 x 95 cm

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Gary Hill and Nam June Paik at Art Taipei 2008

August 29 – September 2, 2008

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