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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Jaye Moon 2025 NYFA Hall of Fame Inductee

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Jaye Moon 2025 NYFA Hall of Fame Inductee

NYFA’s 2025 Hall of Fame Benefit will be held on Tuesday, March 18, at Gotham Hall to celebrate the notable work of NYFA Artist Honorees Jaye Moon and JT Rogers, alongside Patron of the Arts and Partner at Makeable LLC, Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo, and Commissioner Laurie Cumbo, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for their inspiring contributions to the arts.

Since the 1990s, Jaye Moon has been crafting interactive braille paintings using LEGO bricks. Moon has used LEGO as an artistic medium to create works emphasizing inclusivity and tactile engagement. In particular, her LEGO braille paintings demonstrate her innovative approach to accessible art. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum in New York, the Nam June Paik Art Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea. Moon holds an MFA degree in sculpture from Pratt Institute and is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York and Seoul.

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Brooklyn Museum : The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

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The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

October 4, 2024 – January 26, 2025

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In celebration of its 200th anniversary and as a testament to its longstanding commitment to Brooklyn’s many talented denizens, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will host The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. This exhilarating group show will illuminate the borough’s unparalleled breadth and depth of talent, including gallery artist Jaye Moon’s “ Call Me by Your Name.”

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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 BallengĂŠe’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; BjĂśrn 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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Jaye Moon is included in the New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition

Jaye Moon included in New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition

Jaye Moon is included in A View from the Mountaintop, curated by the New York Foundation for the Arts, at 45 Rockefeller Plaza, October 30, 2022 to October 29, 2023.

“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, book, quoted in Braille in the work. 

Viewers will experience the work of Jaye Moon through her deployment of brilliant colors, bold patterns, and the novelty of using universally appealing, unpolitical, mathematical toys as an art medium. Moon’s LEGO paintings contain messages transcribed in Braille, encoding the intricate human stories that we share. 

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Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Jaye Moon Soars On Wings of Desire by Paul Laster | April 27, 2022

White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Jaye Moon Soars On Wings of Desire

by Paul Laster | April 27, 2022

“What do braille, a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, and Lego, a line of plastic construction toys, have in common?  Most people would think nothing, but in the hands and mind of an artist, anything is possible.  Over a period of time the artist Jaye Moon discovered a link and for the last ten years has been making art that merges these two disparate things.” 

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Highrise II, 2007

29 x 17 x 10 in. (73.66 x 43.18 x 25.4 cm)

Legos, Plexiglas, Stainless Steel

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Orange Cell, 2014

8.5 x 7.5 x 3.5 in. (21.59 x 19.05 x 8.89 cm)

Plexiglas, Legos, Stainless steel

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Circle Room, 2014

12 x 10.5 x 6.5 in. (30.48 x 26.67 x 16.51 cm)

Plexiglas, Legos, Stainless steel

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Audre Lorde Bag #5, 2020

Custom made black leather hand bag with red leather lining. Embossed in Braille on front and stamped by hot foil stamping inside Inscribed with Audre Lorde’s “I am not free while any woman is unfree,even when her shackles are very different from my own”

5.5 x 7.5 x 3.5 in. (13.97 x 19.05 x 8.89 cm)

Signed, numbered, and accompanied by the Certificate of Authenticity

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Jaye Moon The Wizard Of Oz

   

The Wizard of Oz

March 1 – April 30, 2021

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