Yvonne Jacquette Exhibition
DC Moore Gallery
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The exhibition features recent paintings and pastels depicting unique aerial views of New York City, New Orleans, and rural Maine. Jacquette has been painting bird’s-eye views of the landscape since 1975. Since Jacquette has lived in New York for part of nearly every year since 1955, the city is, naturally enough, one of her primary subjects. Her paintings depict well-known buildings, famous bridges, neighborhood intersections, and the like with an architectural accuracy that allows individual structures to be readily identified. Jacquette also creates new compositions and arrangements, however, aided by pastel studies and documentary photographs. Her cityscapes are fluid and changeable, based on intuition, chance, and the fleeting nature of perception. Jacquette’s work often explores night and the effects of bright lights, reflections, and indistinct objects set against the surrounding darkness. While these paintings and pastels are made from direct observation, she frequently enlivens compositions through heightened color, repetition of certain elements, and manipulation of light, scale, and perspective. In recent years, Jacquette has photographed shopping malls and parking lots in rural Maine from a helicopter at night.
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Schedule
from February 10, 2010 to March 13, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-02-13 from 16:00 to 18:00