About Jean-Paul

Artist Statement – About Work “Sweeps”

Photography has been presented as a flat rectangle or square, ridgely framed dictated by the camera’s viewfinder. 20th Century painters like Mondrian, Mecarelli, Stella and others broke through, escaped, and created art works in shaped canvases which allowed the paintings to be part of the wall and change the spatial environment they inhabited. Some were hung on a dutch angle.

My photographic “Sweeps” do the same. Moving the camera (iPhone) across the picture plane, like a brush, the image escapes the viewfinder’s limitations and the photograph captures my fragmented views and memories. And like memory, parts are sharp, clear, even repetitive, while other parts are fussy, missing or cropped.

These unorthodox shaped photographs, direct from the camera, are retrieved and printed with minimal manipulation in post production. The image reveals how it should be printed and on what surface.

The flat dye sublimation on aluminum prints, in this portfolio, are cut and bent by hand to reveal the shape and to let it breath. The photograph is hung on the wall, with space behind, at its own aesthetically dutch angle. The wall acts as the negetive space of the finish photograph which is influencing its environment.

Each of my photographs as movies condense in to one single frame.

2023 NBAS Photography Exhibition “Refracted: Shade and Light”

Permanent Collections

  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
  • The New York Historical Society, New York City, NY
  • Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
  • Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ

Solo Exhibitions 

  • Hob’art Gallery, Monroe Art Center, Hoboken, NJ – “Sweep Forward” 04-05.’18
  • Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ – “Visage Hoboken” 11-12.’07 & “Hoboken Sweeps” 3-4.’17
  • Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ – 10.’90 -11.’93

Exhibitions

  • Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ (6+ projects)”Arts Project” 9 ‘22 – 9 ‘23
  • Mary Mcleod Bethune Life Center, Jersey City, NJ, “What Color Is My World?” 9 – 11 ‘22
  • Hoboken Artist Studio Tour, Neumann Leather Buildings, Hoboken NJ, (20+ yrs.) 11, ‘22
  • Jersey City Artist Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ, (over 7 yrs.) 4 location – 10.‘22
  • Zufall Health, Dover, NJ, (8+ shows since 2016) “Movement” 9-12 ‘22
  • Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ, (10+ shows) “Right Now” 10 ’22
  • Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ “The Ellarslie Open 39” 6-10 ’22
  • Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ, “ State of the Art 2022” 6-8’22
    (14+ shows incl.“State of the Art 2021” and “View Points ‘15, ‘18, ‘20, ‘22”)
  • Artist Collaboration Platform, London, GB, “Through the Clouds” 2022
  • Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ, (15+ shows) “(Your) Open Studio” 7.’21
  • Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA “The Sky’s the Limit” 4.’21
  • Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, “Dissonance” 7.’20 – 3.’21
  • The Art Guild of Port Washington, Manhasset, NY, “My 20/20 World” 2-3.’21
  • Rexer Gallery, Hoboken, NJ, “Small Works” 12.’20 – 2.’21
  • Silverman Hamilton Square, Jersey City, NJ, “Jerseyscapes III” 7 – 12 ’20
  • BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ, “Every Ghetto Every City” 12 ‘19 – 1 ’20, “Free Enterprise” 4-9 ’20
  • Noyes Museum of Art, Arts Garage, Atlantic City, NJ., “RAW 2020” 1-4 ’20
  • Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ (5+ shows) “Take Home a Work of Art” 01. ’20
  • Toll Brothers, Art Along the Fence Project, Hoboken, NJ, (3 installations) ’13 -’20
  • Field Colony, Hoboken, NJ, “Art & Craft” 12 ‘19
  • Novodo Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, “Artfirst” 9-11 ‘19
  • The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, “Revisiting Jerseyscapes,” 9-10 ’19
  • The Art Project, Jersey City, NJ, “Hamilton House” 10.’17 – 9.’18 “Oakman” & “CoLab by DVORA” 9 ’19 – 9 ’20
  • The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ, “What’s Next?” 1.’18 “Identity” 3. ’19
  • Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, “hob-art show,” 1-2 ’19
  • Issyra Gallery, Hoboken, NJ, 12. ‘18
  • Hob’art gallery, Monroe Art Center, Hoboken, NJ, (9 shows)“Perspective” 11.’18
  • Edward Williams Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, “Limit/Limitless,” 12.’17 – 1.’18
  • Pro Arts Pop-Up Gallery, JCast Tour (3rd yr.), “What’s Next?” Jersey City, NJ, 10-11.’17
  • Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ 4-5.’17
  • City Life Gallery, Jersey City, NJ. 10.’16
  • Proto Gallery, Neumann Leather Building, “Neumann + One”, Hoboken, NJ, 4-5.’16
  • Aljira Gallery, Studio Montclair’s 18th Annual Exhibition “View Points 2015”Newark, NJ, 6-7. ’15 Munich Re America/Artworks Trenton, “Innovation Exhibition 2015,”
  • Princeton, NJ, 5-6.’15 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, “This is New York,” 4-5.’02
  • Hoboken City Hall, “9-11 Remembering & Healing,” Hoboken, NJ, 11-2.’01
  • Chamot Gallery, 111 1st St., Jersey City, NJ, 7-9.’97
  • Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ, 1-3.’93
  • Williams Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ, 12.’92
  • Barron Art Center, Woodbridge, NJ, 9-10.’92
  • Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Sommerville, NJ, 4-5.’92
  • Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, 8-9.’92
  • City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, “5th Annual Metro Show,” 11.’86
  • Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, 9.’86
  • Unicorn Gallery, Hoboken, NJ, “Mama Papa Stores” 6.’82
  • Hoboken Celebration ‘82, Pier C, Hoboken, NJ “Fifty Artists On the Waterfront” 5.’82
  • Woodman Gallery, Morristown, NJ – 5.’80

Education 

New School Computer Instruction Center, New York, NY Certificate in World Wide Web Page Design ‘01
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Wet Color Darkroom. Processing color prints from Negatives & Cibacrome printing ’88
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communication Design, Photography and Printmaking ’78
Pass Teachers, Louis Fauer – George Tice – Jonathan Talbot

 

Artist Website: http://www.jean-paulpicard.com/

Email: picardvisn@aol.com