Yvonne Jacquette
Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934) is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique. She is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York. Biography. Jacquette grew up in Stamford, Connecticut and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She taught at Moore College of Art and was a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1976. She taught at Parsons School of Design from 1975 to 1978, and at  the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1984. Her three-part mural "Autumn Expression" (1980) is in the U.S. Post Office in Bangor, Maine. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bio, Ms. Jacquette has held various academic positions and was also honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990. In an interview with art critic John Yau in "The Brooklyn Rail", Jacquette says of the way she came to begin painting aerial views: She married Rudy Burckhardt. She is a visiting artist at the Siena Art Institute. She lives in New York City. Work . As noted in "The Female Gaze", "Jacquette's works begin with direct studies made with pastel on paper or photographs taken from airplanes, skyscrapers, or rented single-engine planes. She often took flights primarily to study cloud formations and aerial perspectives. She has been described as the 'Canaletto of the skies.' Her paintings are intensely colored, elaborately detailed panoramas of cities, and the countryside at various day and night. Unique vies and radical angles draw attention to the act of perception, anthropomorphizing the buildings that occupy her urbanscapes." Awards and commissions. 2009 2005 2003 1999 1998 1998-97 1994 1993  1990 1988 1979-82 1976 Solo exhibitions. 2010 2009-10 2008 2006 2005 2003 2002-03 2000 1998 1997 1996 1995 1992 1991 1990 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1979 1976 1974 1972 1971 1965