Yvonne Jacquette, Mixed Heights, 2002
August 05 - September 25 2010
Yvonne Jacquette: Aerials
Main Gallery
Yvonne Jacquette’s “AERIALS: Paintings, Prints, Pastels” emphasizes the theme for which she is renowned: elevated views of cities and landscapes begun most commonly as watercolors, drawn sketches or photographs taken from skyscrapers (including the World Trade Center, the Conde,Nast Building in Times Square and rented hotel rooms), or airplanes and helicopters (often rented) to expand upon in her studios in New York City and Searsmont, Maine. The majority of the more than 40 works in the exhibition include lesser-known pastels which serve as direct studies for larger paintings as well as five sizable black and white editioned woodcuts published by the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City. The pastels and paintings have been made available through the courtesy of the D. C. Moore Gallery in New York and private collectors.
Jacquette first exhibited in a group exhibition in 1962. Seven years later on a flight to San Diego she became interested in aerial views with combined offerings of cloud formations, weather patterns and landscapes below. Her first major aerial landscape done in Maine near her home happened in 1975 when she chartered a private plane. Since then, she has painted aerial landscapes from Chicago to San Francisco and from Vancouver to Tokyo.
Nocturnal views offering a dramatic use of contrasting colors and an increasing move toward abstraction coupled with dots of color are a Jacquette trademark. Spatial configurations often coupled with multiple perspectives become ever more inventive and often create in the viewer a sense of balance and imbalance and even floating free through space.
Jacquette has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and at the world-renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has enjoyed many solo exhibitions from Tokyo to “Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette,” a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York shown concurrently with an extensive exhibition of photographs by her late husband, Rudy Burckhardt. Her work is included in all major museums in Maine, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as the Yale Univerity Art Gallery, the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Library of Congress and the Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C among many, many others.
