JANET TAYLOR PICKETT (1948 - )
Patterns & Perception.
Mixed media on paper, 1998. 571x762 mm; 22 1/2x30 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower and right margins.
Provenance: private collection, New York.
Janet Taylor Pickett's Pattern & Perception focuses on the Black female body and 19th-century garments. She uses collage to layer meaning into her artwork via news clippings, photography, portraiture and the framing of a screen-printed border.
Janet Taylor Pickett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned her BFA and MFA from the University of Michigan. She also studied art at the Vermont Studio Center, Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her expressive artworks explore identity and narrative, utilizing collage to articulate her experience as an African American female artist. She has taught art and art history in New Jersey at Essex County College for over 30 years and Bloomfield College for ten years.
Pickett‘s recent solo shows include The Matisse Series, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, 2016. Group exhibitions include Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century, 2021, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, 2020, 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, 2017. Her artworks are in the collections of the Phillips Collection, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Telfair Museum, Georgia.
