Janet Taylor Pickett

Janet Taylor Pickett (born August 13, 1948) is an American artist. Pickett's mixed media works are inspired by her life experience as an African American woman. Her work has been exhibited at The Phillips Collection, Montclair Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art and is held internationally in numerous private and public collections.

Janet Taylor Pickett
Picket in 2020
Born (1948-08-13) August 13, 1948
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Patron(s)Kamala Harris[1]
Websitejanettaylorpickett.com

Early life and education

Janet Taylor Pickett was born in 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in fine art. She also studied art at the Vermont Studio Center, Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.[1]

Career

Taylor Pickett is a multifaceted artist working in various mediums including sculpture, installation, painting, assemblage, and collage. Her work is inspired by her life as an African American woman and informed by her 30 years teaching at Essex County College in New Jersey. In her own words, "My Blackness is a declarative statement in my work.”[2]

Taylor Pickett was one of the artists whose work was exhibited in the notable 1986 group show Progressions: Cultural Legacy at MoMA PS1.[3] This tribute to pioneering black women artists and their descendants was heralded in The New York Times as "A CHANCE TO FIND IF ART OF WOMEN IS A SPECIAL ART."[4]

Kamala Harris is among the avid patrons of Taylor Pickett's work.[1] One of the artist's pieces was displayed prominently in the congressional office of then-Senator Harris. A September 2021 article in ARTnews observes that "This is Janet Taylor Pickett’s Moment to be Seen."[2]

Taylor Pickett is represented exclusively by Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York City.[5]

Notable exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2021: Janet Taylor Pickett: Necessary Memories, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York City [6]
  • 2016: Janet Taylor Pickett: The Matisse Series, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey[7]

GROUP SHOWS:

  • 2021: Love Difference, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York City[8]
  • 2020: Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC[9]
  • 2020: More Than One Way Home, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York City[10]
  • 2019: The Atlantic World-Layered Histories, Harvard Arts Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 2017: African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze, The David C Driskell Center For the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, MD[11]
  • 1986: Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, Museum of Modern Art PS1[3]

Collections

Taylor Pickett's work is in a number of private and public collections, including among others: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC,[12] The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA,[13] Schomburg Center of African American Culture, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA,[14] Newark Museum, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, NJ, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ, Morris Museum, NJ, The Noyes Museum, NJ, The Jersey City Museum, NJ, Lafayette College, PA, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, NJ, Washington State Council on the Arts (Public Art Commission),[15] Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA,[16] The Peter Norton Collection, University of Eastern New Mexico, New Mexico, The American Consulate, Costa Rica, The Valparaiso Foundation, Spain, Johnson & Johnson, NJ, and Kafe UTU, Singapore.

Personal life

Taylor Pickett maintains a studio and lives in California.

References
  1. "Janet Taylor Pickett". Create! Magazine. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  2. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/sponsored-content/janet-taylor-pickett-necessary-memories-jennifer-baahng-gallery-1234604382/
  3. "Janet Taylor Pickett". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/28/arts/a-chance-to-find-if-art-of-women-is-a-special-art.html
  5. https://www.baahng.com/artists/janet-taylor-pickett/
  6. "Necessary Memories". 30 August 2021.
  7. "Janet Taylor Pickett: The Matisse Series". Artsy. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. "Love Difference". 9 May 2021.
  9. "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition". The Phillips Collection. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  10. "More Than One Way Home". 16 September 2020.
  11. "Shifting: African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze | the David C. Driskell Center".
  12. "Recent Acquisitions".
  13. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Hagar's Dress". Harvard Art Museums. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  14. "Janet Taylor Pickett, "Hagar's Dress" (2007)". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 6 December 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  15. "Janet Taylor Pickett". ArtsWA. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  16. "Results – Search Exhibitions – eMuseum".
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