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Yvonne Jacquette is a versatile artist who has taken as her special subject what the world looks like from high above it.
Above is called Midtown Composite (woodcut), found at soup.
This one, another night view of the big city, is Mixed Heights, found here
Twin views at night from a few thousand feet, an aerial diptych seen at artnet which shows a lot of Yvonne Jacquette,
This is Minneapolis–could you guess? It’s one third of a trio, 1984 shown in Milkmag
Yvonne Jacquette was born in Pittsburgh and lives in New York City. Her work has been chosen for many public collections including those of The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Staatliche Museum, Berlin, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
All her works begin with direct studies in pastel on paper from jet airplanes, city high-rises, or from single-engine planes.
Every now and then, she has taken her talent outside the city. Above is called a Study for Little River Farm IV, 1979, which is owned by the Metropolitan Museum.
This, above, is the same piece of farm in colour, 1979, also from the MET
And here is a stunning aerial view of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg Pennsylvania, 1982, seen here.
Above two, one a night street in the big city, one a highly lit company parking lot on the outskirts, are from dcmoore gallery
Back to New York, this is Yvonne Jacquette’s, New York Harbor Composite, 2003. Woodcut, owned by Yale University Art Gallery
There’s a book about Ms Jacquette and her work. Your library should have one.
She seems to have stepped into a space left alone by other artists and made it all her own. For us, she’s at her best at night, above the big city, a city on the water, with streets and waterways that go about their business unconscious of anyone watching from above.
Her work will remind you that the best moments in an airplane are often on the return flight, just before landing, when the lights of our home town come into view and we recognize a sign, a building, a bridge, a busy street.
Above is Pier A at Battery Park, New York, as seen by Yvonne Jacquette, found at The Brooklyn Rail
Dan Flavin (Marfa project), 1996 Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas
Dan Flavin, "the diagonal of May 25, 1963" (to Constantin Brancusi)
Both of the above by Dan Flavin. Just enough light to make you swoon.
Top image from The Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas. Lower from here.
London light, the garden of the Victoria and Albert Museum, winter 2006/2007. You could walk through and things would change. Apparently “A collaboration between design collective United Visual Artists (UVA) and Robert Del Naja (aka 3D) of Massive Attack and his long-term co-writer Neil Davidge (as part of their music production company, one point six)”, so there you go.
James Turrell is one of a kind and so is the experience of being in one of his coloured-light spaces. You owe it to yourself. Above blue room (Ganzfield) from an installation in England reported here and the green room image is from here.
But there can be good light without colour–this from back when the world was black and white, by American photographer Robert Adams found here. A major exhibition of his work is said to be coming to my town in September. I’ll keep an eye out.
