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One of the few positive side effects of the global pandemic caused by Covid-19 has been a renewed emphasis on the primacy of an artist\u2019s work. That can be seen in \u201cNecessary Memories<\/a>,\u201d the new show of\u00a0Janet Taylor Pickett<\/a>\u2019s paintings currently on view at\u00a0Jennifer Baahng Gallery<\/a>\u00a0on Madison Avenue in New York City until October 30, 2021.<\/p>\n

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And Too, She Was Born<\/em>, 2021.Acrylic and Collage on Canvas
\n36\u00d736 in. (91.44\u00d791.44 cm)<\/span>JANET TAYLOR PICKETT\/JENNIFER BAAHNG GALLERY<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Although Taylor Pickett has an international collector base, this is her first show in New York. It came about after her work was shown at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where it drew the attention of one of the exhibition\u2019s curators. That curator pointed out the work to Jennifer Baahng, a Korea-born New York gallerist who specializes in contemporary art.<\/p>\n

Though unable to meet in person because of the long pandemic restrictions on travel and social contact, Jennifer Baahng and Janet Taylor Pickett\u2014two women living on opposite coasts\u2014were able to develop a strong personal bond through their shared encounter with Taylor Pickett\u2019s artwork. Much of the work that Taylor Pickett shows at Jennifer Baahng Gallery during the long months of quarantine was either new work being made in isolation or work previously made during Taylor Pickett\u2019s 35-year teaching career, which she gave up 20 years ago solely to focus on her work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was making art,\u201d Taylor Pickett says, \u201cwhen no one was looking<\/a>.\u201d Now, after having pieces hung prominently in then-Senator Kamala Harris\u2019s congressional office; in solo shows, and in her work; and being included in exhibitions at places like the Montclair Art Museum, the Harvard Arts Museum, and the Phillips Collection, Taylor Pickett is aware that she\u2019s now on collectors\u2019 radar.<\/p>\n

Taylor Pickett\u2019s art often centers on the image of a single figure, a Black woman in the setting of a singular moment. Both narrative and biographical, the figures speak to Taylor Pickett\u2019s emphasis on representation. \u201cMy Blackness is a declarative statement in my work,\u201d she says. Her images reference the tradition of freed slaves in her native Michigan, which was once a terminus on the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from childhood memories of a cherished Vermeer print in her mother\u2019s household, Taylor Pickett produces work that also harks back to the art of Romare Bearden, with its liberal use of collage elements and a fixation on textile patterns and design inspired by Matisse. As she\u2019s been both a teacher and an artist, the work she creates is in constant dialogue with the art of the past as well as her own history.<\/p>\n

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\"Janet<\/div>\n<\/div>
The Sentinel<\/em>, 2021.
\nAcrylic, Pen and Ink, Pencil, and Collage
\non Gessoed Wooden Box
\n14x11x2 in. (34.56\u00d727.94\u00d75.08 cm)<\/span>JANET TAYLOR PICKETT\/JENNIFER BAAHNG GALLERY<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

She draws equally from the tradition of African American quilting and the social and political activities of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

She approaches popular culture with eyes wide open to the undertone of pain. \u201cI have a collection of pejorative, clich\u00e9 things that we use to denigrate Black people,\u201d she says, describing her desire to take ownership of the derogatory images and reuse them for her own purposes. A watermelon motif appears in a number of her works, often as the pattern on a cotton dress.<\/p>\n

In other paintings, Taylor Pickett has reworked images of Omo women from Ethiopia who were photographed in traditional, objectifying styles. Addressing the racist undertone of the intent to present these women as exotic or \u201cother<\/a>,\u201d Taylor Pickett enhanced the images with her own stock of botanical elements collaged into a transformative whole she calls \u201cExotica Botanica<\/a>.\u201d Embedding these alienating photographs within a collage of flora turns the whole into a celebration of universal women\u2019s joy and humanity.<\/p>\n

This is the common theme in Taylor Pickett\u2019s work, the mixing of formal elements with natural, social and art historical references. She addresses persistent themes of representation while engaging with history. Janet Taylor Pickett\u2019s work is both timeless and particularly of our time making this her moment to be seen.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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