JAYE MOON

Jaye Moon F.U.C.k, 2012 Acrylic on canvas 8 x 10 inches

Jaye Moon

PRIVATE

June 1 – 30, 2025

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PRIVATE presents Jaye Moon’s 2012 Number Paintings, mobilizing systems of communication not to disclose, but to conceal.  Within a lineage of conceptual art that privileges structure over narrative, the exhibition reveals strategies of communication that are measured, coded, and aesthetically controlled.

Number Paintings reference On Kawara’s canonical Date Paintings, which adheres to a strict formal program, canvas sizes, restrained grounds, and uniformly rendered dates in the language and gesture.  Each date marks a day lived without narrativizing the content of that day.  The absence becomes the message, suggesting presence and contemporaneity but withholding any subjective anchoring.

Jaye Moon mirrors this formal apparatus and repurposes it through the lens of linguistic encryption.  Her Number Paintings maintain the aesthetic and procedural fidelity of Kawara’s format. Instead of universalized dates, Moon features encoded Braille messages—transposed into numerical form through a system derived from the Braille alphabet’s dot configurations.  This use of Braille, a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, further complicates the relationship between legibility, visibility, and access.  It serves as a metaphor for the complex nature of communication in subversion, as well as the use of tabooed words.  Her language is not absent, but rather present in another register that requires translation.

Where On Kawara constructs privacy through erasure and minimalism, Jaye Moon constructs it through obfuscation and code.  Both artists instrumentalize the mode of refusal, turning systems of language into architectures of protection.  Their works challenge the concept of communication, particularly in terms of personal or emotional meaning, which must be shielded, deferred, or encrypted.  In this sense, communication is not a conduit but a boundary.

PRIVATE frames privacy as an active aesthetic condition. Sustained through visual and linguistic constraints, Jaye Moon’s critical practice offers a poetics of discretion. PRIVATE values the careful and deliberate control of information, as well as resistance and the right to remain unread.

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JANET TAYLOR PICKETT

Janet Taylor Pickett Memory of Water II, 2021 Acrylic and collage on canvas 40 x 40 inches

Janet Taylor Pickett

The Selma Burke Invitational African American Art Show

May 30 – June 29, 2025

Phillips’ Mill, New Hope, PA

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The gallery artist Janet Taylor Pickett is participating in the Selma Burke Invitational African American Art Show, on view from May 30 through June 29, 2025, at Phillips’ Mill.  Curated to expand the presentation of African American art and culture beyond the major cities of Philadelphia and New York and invigorate the historical context of Phillips Mill, the focal point of Impressionist art in America. During her 45 years in New Hope, Selma Burke taught youth and adults and contributed to depicting Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime. The exhibition celebrates the legacy of Selma Burke and the works of all Black artists, challenging stereotypes and honoring Black art, history, and culture. Presented artists include Edward Bannister, Romare Bearden, Chakaia Booker, Kimberly Camp, Willie Cole, Thornton Dial, Wilfredo Lam, Norman Lewis, Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, and Hale Woodruff.

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VOID IN WRITING

IN THE ATRIUM Yooah Park  VOID IN WRITING September – December, 2024
VOID IN WRITING
September 3 – December 28, 2024
 
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Yooah Park’s Void in Writing is installed in the ATRIUM in Hannam. It is a sculptural mobile made of laser-cut stainless steel suspended by piano strings, soaring 20 feet tall and cascading to the floor. Void in Writing critically analyzes the fundamental nature of communication, raising important questions about its significance when communicative acts devolve into empty gestures. The work investigates the implications of language that lacks meaning, prompting a reevaluation of what constitutes effective communication.

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POETIC PROSE: SUE, LAURA, AND SALLY

Sue McNally Plowed Pile, ND, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 133 inches JBGSM#24101801

POETIC PROSE

SUE, LAURA, and SALLY

November 7 – December 28, 2024

Laura Bell, Sally Egbert, Sue McNally

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Hannam

21-18 Hannam-daero 20-gil

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

South Korea 04419

Gangnam

20 Seolleung-ro 119-gil

Gangnam-gu, Seoul

South Korea, 06100

JENNIFER BAAHNG is pleased to announce POETIC PROSE: Sue, Laura, and Sally on view in Seoul from November 7 through December 28, 2024. The exhibition presents landscapes by notable contemporary artists Sue McNally, Laura Bell, and Sally Egbert. They carve their paths with clever takes on nature, combining authority with touches of femininity. Magical, explosive, and persuasive, these inquiries on nature pulsate with idiosyncrasies and inventiveness. The works infuse the exhibition with a theatrical flair, showcasing bursts of brilliance through a dynamic interplay of color and form with psychological depth and exquisite materials. The exhibition highlights the artists’ reflective moments and unexpected encounters with nature, evoking both exhilaration and tranquility while promoting pluralism and a sense of belonging.

Sue McNally draws inspiration from the perpetual struggle with nature, emphasizing that true understanding comes from observing and experiencing the natural world while trusting our instincts.  Nature, as a painter’s subject, provides McNally an abstracting freedom that is fleeting and fugitive. Her works depict time, space, and memories, synthesizing her visual recollections into chromatic harmonies.  She has painted landscapes for over 30 years, loosening her ties to traditional practices like plein-air painting. Informed by the hierarchies of abstraction and focused on the process of depiction, McNally determines which elements of the landscape should live in abstraction. 

Laura Bell probes the nexus of nature and anthropogenic change.  Deeply appreciative of the spontaneous and serendipitous, her work is inspired by the fantastical profusion and power of the wild world – chaotic landscapes born of our increasingly extreme face-offs with nature.  Our unions and collisions are volatile, fracturing yet brimming with beauty.  Bell investigates nature and life with unwavering honesty, through photo collages that serve as an entrance to a described moment. The call-and-response of the paint and the alchemy that happens on the canvas show a picture plane often in flux; the images may be a slow burn, but they are always the provocation for the brushstrokes around and over them.

Sally Egbert imbues the mundane with an uncanny atmosphere. Her work alludes to the untamed beauty of nature, lonely and sumptuous, with an exceptional sensitivity to minute nuances.  The works are soft and muted, like shrouded morning light.  They are observations from her daily surroundings, infused with ancient symbols and contemporary pep, and influenced by the palette of Giotto.  In her paintings, Egbert aims for transparency, movement, and subtlety grounded in images of nature. She invites the viewer to contemplate and wander in the multi layers of applied paints before settling on a deliberate image.  

POETIC PROSE: Sue, Laura, and Sally is an intense, poetic landscape of three perspectives on nature.  Each artist stakes her claim on nature, and vigorously argues her position on the picture plane.  The exhibition is a strikingly intimate and compelling display of landscapes that rediscovers nature in this significant and poignant era.

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TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

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

TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

September 3 – November 2, 2024

JENNIFER BAAHNG Hannam

21-18 Hannam-daero 20-gil

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

South Korea 04419

IN THE ATRIUM

VOID IN WRITING

September 3 – November 2, 2024

JENNIFER BAAHNG Hannam

21-18 Hannam-daero 20-gil

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

South Korea 04419

In celebrating its 20th anniversary, JENNIFER BAAHNG is making a significant mark. The gallery is opening its first Asia galleries, in Seoul, featuring TRANSPACIFIC: Perfect Lovers and Love Difference. This exhibition, presented in two parts at two locations, is a testament to two decades of artistic excellence. It showcases over a hundred boundary-leaping, subtle, playful, and political works presented by a diverse group of twelve artists and one poet, each with their own unique perspective. Perfect Lovers, opening September 5 at JENNIFER BAAHNG Gangnam, is an intimate space of vast intrigue, debuting polyphonic collectives of love, alienation, and the absurdism of ideal love. Love Difference, opening September 3 at JENNIFER BAAHNG Hannam, explores creative differences, alluding to Manet, Warhol, and the art of loneliness. While New York is its home, JENNIFER BAAHNG is expanding its horizons, pivoting to the Pacific to share expertise and resources to develop the collective in Contemporary Art.

Perfect Lovers, installed in the Gangnam district of Seoul, attends to splendid superficiality and yields a rich psychological weave. It is refreshingly sensuous and seeks flexible interpretations: Rather than assert an identity or contest a social order, Kevin Melchionne steps into an imaginary space he aspires to but cannot fully inhabit; Jaye Moon reworked Félix González-Torres’s “Perfect Lovers” with a clock face in numerical Braille; the celebrated Mr. repurposed a found snowboard with iconic Japanese manga adolescent couples; quandaries of love are seen through the prism of the omnipotent Picasso; stories in first-person narrative are found in Janet Taylor Pickett’s “Pride and Insouciance.” TRANSPACIFIC: Perfect Lovers takes on the confines of adorning life.

Love Difference, installed in the Hannam district of Seoul with a palette of soft concrete in tandem with stark white walls with rich tonal nuances, presents clashing, flourishing, and playful works with a contemporary edge, a material wonder. While the installation feels ethereal, the format lends itself to a vivid, grand fantasy of love: R.C. Baker uses a copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico, in “Holy of Holies,” for which Andy Warhol was credited as the album’s producer; Brandon Ballengée’s “Frameworks of Absence” meticulously embodies the extinct species’ haunting absence; John Cage, a leading figure of the post-war avant-garde, is featured through a set of thirteen Ryoku, created with the principles of an ancient Chinese divination text, the I Ching; going beyond collaboration to a kind of conspiratorial imagination, Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi’s “The Corpses” has evolved into more than two decades of personal and material call-and-response, with a new batch of collages usually in progress or transit; Ru Marshall’s iPhone photo of a bodega in Brooklyn captures fleeting inquiries of interactive perception; Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s old book covers are raising expectations, holding authority, hiding secrets, and promising a visionary spirit—remnants from the proverbial “junkyard of history”; Jaye Moon’s “Get That Money” uses 9,216 Lego bricks to reconstruct K-Rap lyrics by Okasian into Braille in number codes; in Janet Taylor Pickett’s “The Liminal,” a voice chimes with Manet’s Olympia. TRANSPACIFIC: Love Difference reminds us that love is all-inclusive.

Yooah Park’s “Void in Writing” is installed in the ATRIUM in Hannam. The piece is a sculptural mobile made of laser-cut stainless steel suspended by piano strings, soaring 20 feet tall and cascading to the floor. This monumental presentation intrigues and piques the audience’s desire to walk around and contemplate it, enriching TRANSPACIFIC’s rich tapestry of contemporary art.

TRANSPACIFIC embarks on a tour, cites the intricacies, and amps up the romance, love, and deliberate insouciance. Playing out riotously in the soul and body of each work in myriad ways, the exhibition sets up methodical beats so that every work resonates. The show moves forward in a vibrant, varied way that brings different perspectives to the tenets of the unexpected. With sensuality and drama, Perfect Lovers is the good, the mad, and the quirky brought together into fantastical stories. Love Difference is profoundly thoughtful and cleverly argued. JENNIFER BAAHNG’s inaugural exhibition in Asia, TRANSPACIFIC, is a tale of love, in two cities, in Seoul.

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TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

GANGNAM, SEOUL PERFECT LOVERS August 16 - October 19, 2024

TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

September 5 – October 19, 2024

JENNIFER BAAHNG Gangnam

20 Seolleung-ro 119-gil

Gangnam-gu, Seoul

South Korea, 06100

In celebrating its 20th anniversary, JENNIFER BAAHNG is making a significant mark. The gallery is opening its first Asia galleries, in Seoul, featuring TRANSPACIFIC: Perfect Lovers and Love Difference. This exhibition, presented in two parts at two locations, is a testament to two decades of artistic excellence. It showcases over a hundred boundary-leaping, subtle, playful, and political works presented by a diverse group of twelve artists and one poet, each with their own unique perspective. Perfect Lovers, opening September 5 at JENNIFER BAAHNG Gangnam, is an intimate space of vast intrigue, debuting polyphonic collectives of love, alienation, and the absurdism of ideal love. Love Difference, opening September 3 at JENNIFER BAAHNG Hannam, explores creative differences, alluding to Manet, Warhol, and the art of loneliness. While New York is its home, JENNIFER BAAHNG is expanding its horizons, pivoting to the Pacific to share expertise and resources to develop the collective in Contemporary Art. 

Perfect Lovers, installed in the Gangnam district of Seoul, attends to splendid superficiality and yields a rich psychological weave. It is refreshingly sensuous and seeks flexible interpretations: Rather than assert an identity or contest a social order, Kevin Melchionne steps into an imaginary space he aspires to but cannot fully inhabit; Jaye Moon reworked Felix Gonzales’s “Perfect Lovers” with a clock face in numerical Braille; the celebrated Mr. repurposed a found snowboard with iconic Japanese manga adolescent couples; quandaries of love are seen through the prism of the omnipotent Picasso; stories in first-person narrative are found in Janet Taylor Pickett’s “Pride and Insouciance.” TRANSPACIFIC: Perfect Lovers takes on the confines of adorning life.

Love Difference, installed in the Hannam district of Seoul with a palette of soft concrete in tandem with stark white walls with rich tonal nuances, presents clashing, flourishing, and playful works with a contemporary edge. While the installation feels ethereal, the format lends itself to a vivid, grand fantasy of love: R.C. Baker uses a copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico, in “Holy of Holies,” for which Andy Warhol was credited as the album’s producer; Brandon Ballengée’s “Frameworks of Absence” meticulously embodies the extinct species’ haunting absence; John Cage, a leading figure of the post-war avant-garde, is featured through a set of thirteen Ryoku, created with the principles of an ancient Chinese divination text, the I Ching; going beyond collaboration to a kind of conspiratorial imagination, Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi’s “The Corpses” has evolved into more than two decades of personal and material call-and-response, with a new batch of collages usually in progress or transit; Ru Marshall’s iPhone photo of a bodega in Brooklyn captures fleeting inquiries of interactive perception; Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s old book covers are raising expectations, holding authority, hiding secrets, and promising a visionary spirit—remnants from the proverbial “junkyard of history”; Jaye Moon’s “Get That Money” uses 9,216 Lego bricks to reconstruct K-Rap lyrics by Okasian into Braille in number codes; in Janet Taylor Pickett’s “The Liminal,” a voice chimes with Manet’s “Olympia.” TRANSPACIFIC: Love Difference reminds us that love is all-inclusive.

Yooah Park’s “Void in Writing” is installed in the ATRIUM in Hannam. The piece is a sculptural mobile made of laser-cut stainless steel suspended by piano strings, soaring 20 feet tall and cascading to the floor. This monumental presentation intrigues and piques the audience’s desire to walk around and contemplate it, enriching TRANSPACIFIC’s rich tapestry of contemporary art.

TRANSPACIFIC embarks on a tour, cites the intricacies, and amps up the romance, love, and deliberate insouciance. Playing out riotously in the soul and on the body of each work in myriad ways, the exhibition sets up methodical beats so that every work resonates. The show moves forward in a vibrant, varied way that brings different perspectives to the tenets of the unexpected. With sensuality and drama, Perfect Lovers is the good, the mad, and the quirky brought together into fantastical stories. Love Difference is profoundly thoughtful and cleverly argued. JENNIFER BAAHNG’s inaugural exhibition in Asia, TRANSPACIFIC, is a tale of love, in two cities, in Seoul.

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DEBORAH BUCK

Deborah Buck Stand Off, 2024 Acrylic and sumi ink on panel 38.25 x 50.25 in.
   

Madison Ave  New York

Deborah Buck

Witches Bridge

May 16 – July 12, 2024

Jennifer Baahng is proud to announce Witches Bridge, Deborah Buck’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Witches Bridge is an arc of Buck’s 40-year career span, showcasing selected works from the 1980s through the present. Coagulating abstraction and surrealism, the exhibition consists of recent paintings that depict intertwined masses that bulge and fold, ignoring illusion, perspective, or scale, flattening the hierarchical relationship between its elements.  In the 90s paintings, Buck portrays a world where familiar-made-into-strange takes on a Domination Symbolique; unconscious cultural and social domination modes occur within the social habits.  Collages, produced in the 2000s and continuing, are fragmented visuals of conjectures to be fathomed—ranging from the alchemical to the astrological and the heretical to the folklore. Witches Bridge delivers rich narratives in invented landscapes and allegorical scenes, where an absurd tale is configured to provoke profound inquiry and savoring of life.

 

The exhibition opens on May 16, Thursday, with a reception from 6 – 8 pm.

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Jaye Moon The Wizard Of Oz

   

The Wizard of Oz

March 1 – April 30, 2021

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LAURA BELL AND IAN GANASSI

Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi THE CORPSES March 26 - April 30

Madison Ave New York

Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi

THE CORPSES

March 26 – May 3, 2024

Laura Bell, a painter based in the Bronx, and Ian Ganassi, a poet in New Haven, met as artists in residence at the Millay Colony. In 2005, Ian mailed Laura an unfinished poem and handwritten phrases on a piece of printer paper stained with coffee rings, and in an accompanying letter asked her to do something to it. This became the first move in what evolved into their ongoing collaborative collage series, “The Corpses,” titled after the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse. With each mailing, words, images, and objects are added and new pieces are started; at any point, either of them can call a work finished. At first it was assumed that Ian would contribute text and Laura visuals, but this division soon dissolved, with Laura adding lines cut from ads or subway handouts and Ian melting crayons and experimenting with paint. They each had already been using collage methods in their own bodies of work, Ian with overheard and appropriated lines in his poems and Laura with photos and laser prints in the grounds of her paintings. 

Pop culture, politics, religion, and poetry make appearances, and recurring images and phrases create echoes and connections. A collage might go back and forth many times or make only one circuit between New Haven and New York. The pieces can be minimal or layered; early ones tended to be more spare, later work often gathered more objects, but over the years this has also followed an ebb and flow. Some pieces develop themes or function almost as diaries (a hospital glove, a postcard), and time frames can be felt in political or current events references. The gathering of materials has become a consuming habit for both of them, combining found objects, text, drawings, ads, photos, fabrics, and all manner of mixed media—a painterly, visceral process, the anti-Photoshop. “The Corpses turned us into scavengers,” Ian has said. “We ended up trying to get the whole world into them.” 

The process has retained its initial sense of play, while also reflecting battles over the obliteration of a passage of paint or text or the declaring of a piece finished. The series quickly demanded a level of intention equal to the work they were publishing and exhibiting individually. Called “joyously Fluxus-like” by Robert Shuster in the Village Voice and described by writer H. Byron Earhart as going “beyond collaborative to a kind of conspiratorial imagination,” “The Corpses” has evolved into more than a decade of personal and material call-and-response. At present, there are more than 300 finished works. A new batch is usually in progress or in transit.

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JANET TAYLOR PICKETT, ZHANG HONGTU, PINK and THE CORPSES


JANET TAYLOR PICKETT, ZHANG HONGTU, PINK and THE CORPSES


Madison Avenue  New York
Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu, PINK and THE CORPSES
October 5 – October 31, 2023

R.C. Baker
Eric Brown
Deborah Buck
Bell and Ganassi
Jaye Moon
Mr.
Janet Taylor Pickett
Zhang Hongtu

We are pleased to announce the group exhibition Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu, PINK and THE CORPSES, which runs from October 5 through October 31, 2023.  The exhibition marks the New York premiere of Janet Taylor Pickett’s works, previously only shown at the Oceanside Museum of Art in California, that probe a personal and collective past to posit a distinctly Black mythology of Self.  

This is also the debut of Zhang Hongtu’s never-before-seen Shan Shui Paintings from his personal collection.  Zhang’s Shan Shui series spans several years and explores the categories of “East” and “West” in a distinctive manner, reflecting his life in two cultures. He reimagines the work of seventeenth-century Chinese artists in the vibrant colors and brushwork of Monet and Vincent van Gogh.

On view includes works by R.C. Baker, Eric Brown, Deborah Buck, Bell and Ganassi, Jaye Moon, and Mr. selected from the online exhibition PINK and THE CORPSES.

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