Klompching Gallery
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curious Devices & Other Objects, November 10, 2021 – February 26, 2022. Group exhibition: Jeanette May, Max de Esteban, and Rebecca Hackemann.
The exhibition brings together three artists, utilizing diverse photographic processes but connected through their reverence for technological artifacts. One might describe them as performing a technological taxidermy, performing the role of memento mori for obsolete machines that may soon be forgotten.
The Gallery at Penn College
The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA, Tech Vanitas, Jeanette May, Solo Exhibition, October 21 – November 23, 2021.
https://www.pct.edu/gallery
© Exhibition photos courtesy of Pennsylvania College of Technology
MTA Art & Design, Lightbox Project
Jeanette May’s “Tech Vanitas” photographs were displayed in light boxes at the Bryant Park/42nd St/6th Ave subway station in New York City. Tech Time Capsule was installed in January 2020 and removed in May 2021.
This public art installation was generously sponsored by MTA Arts & Design, Griffin Editions, Kodak/alaris, and Kodak Professional.
Shanghai, China
Alter Gallery also included the Tech Vanitas photographs at PhotoFairs Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, September 19 – 22, 2019. May’s Tech Vanitas: Fiber Optics image welcomed visitors to the fair (photos #1 and #2).
Jeanette May presented a solo exhibition of her Tech Vanitas series
at Alter Gallery in Shanghai, China, June 1 – 30, 2019.
Exhibition photos courtesy of Alter Gallery
Cluster Gallery
Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Beautiful Obsolescence, March 2 – 30, 2018. Group exhibition: Jeanette May, Adrianne Wortzel, and Mary Mattingly. The exhibition was curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley.
Our contemporary lives are filled with redundant technologies and consumer goods. To make sense of the technologiesand objects that fill our lives, the artists in Beautiful Obsolescence reimagine consumer goods. By recontextualizingour view on these objects the artists bring a fresh eye to how these objects affect us, giving them new lives.
ArtsFor_
ArtsFor_, Base Spaces, Milan, Italy, Futuro Presente, March 15 - 18, 2018. Public installation including “Tech Vanitas” photographs by Jeanette May and works by 20 international artists as part of the Milan Digital Week. Futuro Presente was designed by Raumplan and curated by ArtsFor_.
Milan Digital Week included debates, exhibitions, seminars, performances, and workshops. Futuro Presente used projection on five large screens to explore the consequences of technology on people, the changes in society between past and future, and progress related to identity and culture.
Morbidity & Mortality Exhibitions
Jeanette May’s Morbidity & Mortality series was exhibited in several venues including a solo exhibition at OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, November 2 – December 7, 2013.
Morbidity & Mortality prints were also exhibited at AIR Gallery (photo #3) and the Brooklyn Arts Council offices (photo #4), both in Brooklyn, NY.
AIR Gallery
AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Bachelor Pads, Jeanette May,
Solo Exhibition, February 2012.
Inspired by 1960s movies and magazine spreads on the phenomenon of the “bachelor pad,” May gives us a peek into the contemporary bachelor’s home.