Yvonne Jacquette
February 4 – March 8, 2003

Yvonne Jacquette's paintings bring a sense of magic to the physical features of cityscapes and landscapes as viewed from airplanes and high buildings. This exhibition focuses on Jacquette's recent aerial views of New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Maine. Also included will be a series of pastels of Switzerland, Utah, Nevada, Nova Scotia, and Seattle.

DC Moore's exhibition appears concurrently with the traveling exhibition Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette, which opens at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York on February 8 and continues through May 4, 2003. Aerial Muse includes approximately 40 paintings, drawings and prints illustrating the development of Jacquette's work from 1975 to the present. The exhibition was organized by Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center and is accompanied by an illustrated 172page catalogue co-published with Hudson Hills Press.

Many of Jacquette's paintings and pastels incorporate multiple perspectives or composite viewpoints while in others feathery brush-strokes abstract and soften the physical features of the landscape. Her work combines elements of abstraction and representation, pattern and grid, surface and illusion, and observation, imagination, and memory. Influenced by art movements as diverse as Impressionism, Pointillism, and Abstract Expressionism; by media including photography, film, and textile design; and by Asian and Buddhist teachings, she illuminates the beauty, energy, and condition of the contemporary landscape, reveling in its unusual juxtapositions and paradoxes.

Jacquette first began working with aerial views in the mid-1970s, initially with the intention of capturing cloud formations and weather patterns. However, once she looked down at the landscape below and was captured by its seemingly endless complexity and fascination, this plan was quickly abandoned. During the ensuing decades Jacquette has worked extensively with both daytime and nighttime views from airplanes. She has also done a number of series from the vantage point of high buildings in some of the largest and most visually interesting cities in the Linked States and Asia.