You're invited to visit my art studio at Industry City during the Sunset Park Open Studios. My studio will be open Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 1pm to 5pm.
Artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn, will be open to the public for this free weekend event. Please join me in the space where I create still lifes and see new work-in-progress. Save the date!
Industry City, Building 5
3rd Floor, Studio B331
67 35th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Two new still lifes are available from my "Still Life with" photography series! I continue to explore outdated technology, domestic wares, and our nostalgia for vintage gadgets. Despite the charming designs, these relics of obsolete tech also allude to environmental concerns, recycling, and the right to repair.
The archival pigment prints are produced in a limited edition of 10 plus 1 artist proof.
You're invited to visit my art studio at Industry City during the Design Festival & Open Studios, May 18 & 19, 2024, 12 noon - 5pm. Artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout Industry City (in Sunset Park, Brooklyn) will be open to the public for this free weekend event. Please join me in the space where I create still lifes and see new work-in-progress.
My studio is located two blocks from the 36th Street stop on the D/N/R subway. If you drive, look for metered street parking or parking lots on 2nd Ave ($15-$20 day rate).
Jeanette's studio:
Industry City, Building 5
3rd Floor, Studio B331
67 35th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Letter-sized prints from my “Still Life with” series of photographs are once again available for $125 each. F22 Fine Art Prints has opened their archive for online print sales through April 11th. These limited-edition archival prints come with a signed certificate of authenticity. “Still Life with Spy Camera” has only a few prints available; plenty of “Still Life with Clock Radio” in stock. Buy a set! https://www.f22prints.com
Larger print sizes available from me:
$600 Image size 18 x 12"
$1000 Image size 24 x 16"
$2000 Image size 36 x 24"
My photograph Curious Devices: Webcam is included in the NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Benefit Auction this year.
The starting bid for this 16 x 24” limited edition framed print is $900. The auction goes live online March 20th at 5pm. The in-person benefit dinner party will be held April 3rd at Gotham Hall in NYC.
Additional prints and larger sizes are also available for purchase by contacting Jeanette May.
Curious Devices: Webcam
“Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix” was mentioned in several reviews of the exhibition Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition closed on November 5th, but you can read the reviews online.
Musée Magazine, October 30, 2023
Art & Archaeology news at Princeton, including an interview, September 27, 2023
Smithsonian Magazine, August 25, 2023
“Dot Matrix” from my Tech Vanitas series is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. Don't miss the exhibition Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings closing on November 5th.
The multi-artist exhibition was curated by Ronni Baer, Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, with Peter H. Fox, Curatorial Associate, European art. Contemporary artists include Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz, Nina Katchadourian, Sharon Core, Bas Meeuws, Ori Gersht, Bill Viola, and Jeanette May
While a new museum building is under construction, this exhibition is presented at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space in downtown Princeton. Art on Hulfish is located at 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542.
More information from the Princeton University Art Museum:
Focusing on portraiture and still life, the exhibition features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by early modern European artists. For example, Yasumasa Morimura finds inspiration for his theatrical self-presentations in portraits by Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, and others. Vik Muniz and Nina Katchadourian toy with the artist’s toolbox, referencing well-known portraits by Renaissance and Baroque artists but using unexpected media to impart a sense of fun and whimsy to their images. Sharon Core, who meticulously grows her own horticultural specimens, and Bas Meeuws, who plays with scale and saturated color in his hyperrealistic photographs of flowers, draw on seventeenth-century Dutch floral imagery to delve into issues of picture-making and perception. Jeanette May investigates her anxiety about new technology and her love of obsolete machines in a carefully constructed jumble that recalls a Dutch tabletop still life. Ori Gersht ponders the relationship between beauty and violence by exploding three-dimensional versions of European still lifes. By exploring the various ways artists engage with the history of art, this exhibition showcases creative choices, artistic intent, and visual exchanges across time.
Still Life with Spy Camera
Purchase “Still Life with Spy Camera” or “Still Life with Clock Radio” by October 12th. Letter-sized prints of these photographs are once again available for $125 each. F22 Fine Art Prints has opened their archive for online print sales. These limited-edition archival prints come with a signed certificate of authenticity. “Still Life with Spy Camera” has only a few prints available; plenty of “Still Life with Clock Radio” in stock. Buy a set! https://www.f22prints.com/fineartprints
Larger print sizes are available from me directly. (all my prices are going up after Oct 15. Don't wait!)
$500 Image size 18 x 12"
$900 Image size 24 x 16"
$1800 Image size 36 x 24"
Still Life with Clock Radio
Press coverage for the exhibition “Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” at the Princeton University Art Museum includes SmithsonianMag.com, ArtNet.com News, and USA Art News. Clip from Smithsonian Magazine (online) discussing Jeanette May’s Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix.
Members Preview opening reception August 19th at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition, curated by Ronni Baer, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, will be on view from August 19 - November 5. 2023. A new museum building is under construction, so this exhibition is held at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space: 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Jeanette May’s “Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix” (left) in exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Photographs by Yasumasa Morimura and Vik Muniz in the Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings.
“Dot Matrix” from my Tech Vanitas series will be included in the exhibition Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings at the Princeton University Art Museum. Focusing on portraiture and still life, the exhibition features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by early modern European artists. The exhibition was curated by Ronni Baer, Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, with Peter H. Fox, curatorial associate, European art.
Exhibition dates: August 19 - November 5. 2023.
Please join me at these exhibition related events:
Members Preview (join and register for the event!), Friday, August 18 at 6:30pm
Open House with Curators, Saturday, September 9 at 1:00pm
Contemporary artists in the exhibition:
Yasumasa Morimura
Vik Muniz
Nina Katchadourian
Sharon Core
Bas Meeuws
Ori Gersht
Jeanette May
While a new museum building is under construction, this exhibition will be presented at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space in downtown Princeton.
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Several of Jeanette May’s “Tech Vanitas” photographs are featured in “Vanitas: The Art of Death and Decay,” by Kristine Somerville. This article is published in the Summer 2023, vol. 46, no. 2, issue of The Missouri Review. You may download a PDF file here.
Pictured here is a painting by Audrey Flack.
