january 23, 2025

Solo Exhibition

Jeanette May’s solo exhibition, “Curious Devices,” is presented at ARC Gallery in Chicago. Her still life photographs of vintage technology, obsolete gadgets, and repair tools will be on view January 23 – February 28, 2025. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, February 7th, 5 – 8pm.

ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642

arcgallery.org
info@arcgallery.org
312-877-5760

Hours:
Thursday – Friday, 2 – 6pm
Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 4pm


November 6, 2024

Altarpieces Exhibition

Exhibition documentation photo provided by the gallery.

Jeanette May’s photographs are included in the group exhibition, Altarpieces, at Manifest Gallery, in Cincinnati, OH. “Curious Devices: 35mm Camera” was a finalist for the grand jury award. Exhibition dates: November 8 – December 6. 2024.

About the exhibition:
An altar is a place for worship, for ritual, for sacrifice. While functionally a table, an altar is holier in intent—the difference comes from dedication. Objects on an altar are carefully arranged and used for sacred purpose. An object placed on an altar becomes an icon.

The objects in a still life are similarly arranged, imbued with meaning by artistic intent. If a still life is an altarpiece, to what deity is it dedicated?

Manifest Gallery
2727 Woodburn Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45206

www.manifestgallery.org


october 22, 2023

Closing Nov 5th! Contemporary Photographers at Princeton Museum

Exhibition documentation photo provided by the gallery.

“Dot Matrix” from my Tech Vanitas series is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. Don't miss the exhibition Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings closing on November 5th. 

The multi-artist exhibition was curated by Ronni Baer, Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, with Peter H. Fox, Curatorial Associate, European art. Contemporary artists include Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz, Nina Katchadourian, Sharon Core, Bas Meeuws, Ori Gersht, Bill Viola, and Jeanette May

While a new museum building is under construction, this exhibition is presented at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space in downtown Princeton. Art on Hulfish is located at 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542.

Exhibition reviews:

Musée Magazine, October 30, 2023

Art & Archaeology news at Princeton, including an interview, September 27, 2023

Smithsonian Magazine, August 25, 2023

More information from the Princeton University Art Museum:
Focusing on portraiture and still life, the exhibition features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by early modern European artists. For example, Yasumasa Morimura finds inspiration for his theatrical self-presentations in portraits by Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, and others. Vik Muniz and Nina Katchadourian toy with the artist’s toolbox, referencing well-known portraits by Renaissance and Baroque artists but using unexpected media to impart a sense of fun and whimsy to their images. Sharon Core, who meticulously grows her own horticultural specimens, and Bas Meeuws, who plays with scale and saturated color in his hyperrealistic photographs of flowers, draw on seventeenth-century Dutch floral imagery to delve into issues of picture-making and perception. Jeanette May investigates her anxiety about new technology and her love of obsolete machines in a carefully constructed jumble that recalls a Dutch tabletop still life. Ori Gersht ponders the relationship between beauty and violence by exploding three-dimensional versions of European still lifes. By exploring the various ways artists engage with the history of art, this exhibition showcases creative choices, artistic intent, and visual exchanges across time.


August 9, 2023

Princeton University Art Museum

“Dot Matrix” from my Tech Vanitas series will be included in the exhibition Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings at the Princeton University Art Museum. Focusing on portraiture and still life, the exhibition features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by early modern European artists. The exhibition was curated by Ronni Baer, Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, with Peter H. Fox, curatorial associate, European art.

Exhibition dates: August 19 - November 5. 2023.

Contemporary artists in the exhibition:
Yasumasa Morimura
Vik Muniz
Nina Katchadourian
Sharon Core
Bas Meeuws
Ori Gersht
Jeanette May

While a new museum building is under construction, this exhibition will be presented at Princeton's Art on Hulfish space in downtown Princeton. Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ 08542


june 7, 2023

“Affiliation” at the National Arts Club, NYC

Works by Jeanette May and JoAnne McFarland in the “Affiliation” exhibition.

My tech still lifes are included in the group exhibition “Affiliation” at The National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York City, June 5 - 30, 2023.

The opening reception is scheduled for June 8th, 6 - 8pm. The reception is free and open to the public. A walk through with curator JoAnne McFarland takes place on Thursday, June 15, 6 - 7pm.

The exhibition, curated by Sasha Chavchavadze, Heather Topcik, and JoAnne McFarland (a current Fellow at The Club), will showcase the work of twenty-one artists using art to explore who and what we want to belong to, and why.

The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Pk S,
New York, NY 10003

Hours:
9am – 4pm, Mon – Fri
10am – 4pm, Weekend


september 25, 2022

The National: Best Contemporary Photograph

I was invited by curator Lauren Wolfer to participate in “The National: Best Contemporary Photography” at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The hybrid invitation/juried exhibition will be on view from September 17, 2022 through January 8, 2023.