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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Brandon Ballengée

Romare Bearden

Deborah Buck

Shijia Chen

Billy Copley

Eileen Foti

Björn Meyer-Ebrecht

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Pablo Picasso

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Zhang Hongtu

Every artist since the early 20th century has been influenced by Pablo Picasso.  The protean painter/ sculptor/ printmaker/ ceramicist helped define what “modern” art once was – and is still becoming.  In 1939, MoMA’s staff was gathering 300 works by the world’s “most famous living artist” (according to the museum’s press release) for Picasso: Forty Years of His Art.  A centerpiece of the exhibit was Guernica, his grisaille mural decrying the destruction of the small Basque town by Nazi bombers, in 1937.

Along with Michelangelo and Rembrandt, the name Picasso (1881-1973) has become a synonym – a cliché, even – for “artist.”  But none of the artists in Picasso, Welcome to America see the Spanish-born titan as an old hat.  Instead, these ten Americans find in the European trailblazer constant inspiration and ongoing challenge.  Zhang Hongtu imagines Chairman Mao exposed by glaring illumination similar to the all-seeing lantern in Guernica.  Jaye Moon also reimagines Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece, in When Bob Dylan Meets Picasso, Guernica – using Lego bricks in Braille rather than paint.

The bodies and masks in another Picasso touchstone, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), come under scrutiny from Eileen Foti and André Raffray through substitution and homage.  Billy Copley finds masks in unlikely surroundings, while Janet Taylor Pickett moves effigies aside to place her powerful female figure at center stage.  Deborah Buck turns Picasso’s infamously harsh male gaze around, painting surreal figures that might be asking, “Who’s crying now?”  In Weary of Treading the Earth, from 1945, Romare Bearden, working in watercolor and ink rather than his later signature collage, energizes cubist space with a circus-like palette.  R.C. Baker riffs beyond Picasso’s Blue and Rose periods through primary-colored aluminum printing plates.  Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s dynamic wood and enamel sculpture strips the figure to cubist angles and voids, while Brandon Ballengée searches for animals that, like Picasso’s minotaurs, are no longer with us. Original works by Pablo Picasso will also be on view, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death.

All of the artists in this exhibition have been influenced by Picasso’s experiments with form and perspective – his breaking of traditional and academic rules.  Some of the work here also comments on his darker side, while other pieces engage with the social and political aspects of Picasso’s art.  Ultimately, these ten contemporary artists in Picasso, Welcome to America appreciate the formal and aesthetic complexity of a constant innovator.  This great artist was effectively barred from ever visiting the United States because he was a member of the French Communist Party.  But the joke was on the Feds – Picasso has been in America all along.

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Jaye Moon is included in the New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition

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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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“On April 29, 2022, I had the pleasure of interviewing the Korean-born New York artist Jaye Moon, whose second solo exhibition at Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York had just closed. Moon is known primarily for her portable architectural sculptures and works made of Lego. Wings of Desire featured her recent body of conceptual work that utilizes a numerical system and the colors of Legos within the binary logic of Braille. Also exhibiting were some older works that have rarely been shown. This interview covers Moon’s career trajectory from her days as an art student in Korea to her most recent practice focusing on visual communication with particular references to film. Jaye Moon (b. 1963, Seoul, Korea) currently works in Brooklyn, New York, and is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery……”
 

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“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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Wings of Desire | Jaye Moon

WINGS OF DESIRE

A Brief Survey of Sculptural Paintings by Jaye Moon

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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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Born 1963, lives and works in NY

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute MFA, Sculpture, Brooklyn, NY

Sangmyung Women’s University, BFA, Sculpture, Seoul

SELECTED RESIDENCY 

2020

NARS Foundation Studio Relief Program, Brooklyn, New York

2012

CJ Art  Studio Residency, Cheongju, Korea

2011

Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida

2009

New York Arts Foundation Fellowship Awards, New York, NY

2009

Al Foundation 6th Visual Art Award, New York, New York

2006

Polack Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Wizard of Oz, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY

2019

Thin Red Line, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2018

Thin Red Line, Marisa Newman Projects

2017

Build Up, Hanmi Gallery, Seoul

2015

All in the Game; Art of Jaye Moon, Brick Lane, Seoul

2015

Play things in Modernism, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2014

Breaking the Code, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2012

Breaking the Code, Newman Popiashevilli Gallery. New York, NY

2012

Luminous, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2008

Contained, Newman Popiashevilli Gallery, New York, NY

2007

Modern Living, Max Estralla Gallery, Madrid

2005

Portable Living, Newman Popiashevilli Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2020

Touch, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, NY

2020

Reflection, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2020

Silence of Future: when your tongue vanishes, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yong In, Korea

2019

WorldPride/50 Stonewall 50, Lisa Project NYC, New York, NY

2017

Cityscape, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo

2017

Dynamic Size, Belsky Museum of Art, New Jersey, USA

2017

The City of Homeless, Gimhae Arts Center:Yunsle Art Museum, Gimhae, Korea

2016

Discovery of Space, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art,  Gyeonggi-do, Korea

2016

The City of Homeless, Arco Art Center, Seoul

2015

Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Lineage of Vision, New York Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY

2014

Shades of Time, Queens Museum. Queens, New York

2014

Shades of Time, New York Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY

2010

Objects, Pelham Art Center, Westchester, NY

2010

Expressions, Jamaica Art Center, Queens, New York

2009

Textile Art, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea

2009

Faces and Facts – Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Sylvia World and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY 

2007

Fashion Meets Art, Macy’s, Herald Square, New York, NY

2007

Dichotomy. New York Korean Cultural Service, New York NY

2004

Opposite, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY, 

2001

Rebellion of Space, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, New York

1999

Outerbrough, White Columns, New York, New York

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi Do, Korea

21st  C Museum Hotel, Nashville

Café Royal Hotel, London

Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, NY

Takeo Obayashi Collection, Tokyo

Café Royal Hotel, London

Rutter Associates Korea, Seoul

Nexon, Paju, Korea

SELECTED REVIEW & INTERVIEWS 

2019

Interview, Laura Flanders Show 

2019

Brooklyn Street Art by Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

2019

Artnet Editor’s Picks, by Taylor Dafoe, January issue

2018

SCASA Magazine, by Won Young Park, July issue

2017

Artnet Editor’s Pick, by Taylor Dafoe, January issue.

2016

Art in Culture, by Kiyoung Peik, Aug issue

2016

Wolganmisool, by Byung Hak Ryu, Aug issue

2016

Misoolsege, by Hye Su Han, Aug issue

2013

Huffington Post by Priscilla Frank

2013

Brooklyn Street Art by Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

2012

Huffington Post by Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

2012

Art in America by Brian Boucher

2012

Art in the Air by Benjamin Sutton

2012

Interview, Street Art NYC. Noted Artist, by Lois Stavsly

2010

Queens Chronicle, by Willow Belden

2010

The Queens Courier, by Jessica Lyons

2009

News Week (Korean Version) Magazine  by Hyunjung Seo

2009

Prattfolio Magazine, by Adrienne Gyongy, Fall issue

2007

Interview. “De Formas” Telemadrid TV Channel by Baruc Corazon

2006

Art in America, by Brian Boucher, March Issue

2003

Artforum.Com, the August Issue by Lori Waxman.

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