Helene Jacqz

Born in Paris in1964, Hélène Jacqz grew up in Fontenay-aux-Roses. She moved to Paris in 1982 and enrolled at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (Beaux- Arts) in 1986, drawing from nature and at Le Louvre. An admirer of the Nabis, she obtained her Beaux- Arts diploma in 1991 as well as two scholarships, in 1991 and 1992, to study at the Parsons School of Art in New York (Fulbright and Lavoisier). She returned to France in 1996. Since then, she works in her studio in Montrouge.A key moment of the early years of Helen Jacqz in the United States was her encounter with Jazz. She found in it an echo of her painted work, and at its core the delicate balance between freedom and constraint called improvisation.
Jazz requests to keep time on a given tempo and to improvise within the harmonies of a theme with the best possible tones and sonority. Painting unfolds in the limited space of the canvas and juggles with shapes and colors.The American action painting, like “tachism” and “gestual painting” in Europe are exactly contemporary phenomena. Both constitute a language that never stopped, since its inception, to forge new stories
As in jazz the purity of tone, in action painting, the speed of the movement and the simplicity of a s...

1993 Master of Fine Art, Parsons School of Art, New York
1991 Diploma in painting, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
(5 years stay in New York (1991-1996))

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2018 Galerie Insula, Paris
2017 Dancing Soul, le SEL, Sèvres
2016 Galerie Insula, Paris
2015 Domaine Tinel-Blondelet, FIAAC Pouilly
2013 Orangerie du Sénat, jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
2013 Orangerie du Sénat, jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
Espace Icare, Issy les Moulineaux, Hauts de Seine
Auberge du Frankenbourg, Strasbourg
2012 Gallery Le Garage, Nantes
2010 Parsons Shool of Art, Paris
Gallery Alexandre Cadain, Paris
Centre d’arts plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, Hauts de Seine
2009 Gallery Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, Hauts de Seine
2008 Maison des arts de Châtillon, Hauts de Seine
Médiathèque de Fontenay-aux roses, Hauts de Seine
2007 Espace Jacques Prévert, Mers-les-bains, Somme
40° sur la Banquise, Montrouge, Hauts de Seine
2005 MAC 2005, Paris
Parsons School Paris, Paris
Home Art, Ivry
2004 Les Cimaises, Orly Ouest Airport, France
Espace Citroën, Siège de Citroën, St Ouen
Manoir de Villers, « Travaux sur papier », Saint
Pierre de Manneville (76), France
2002 Château d’Autonne, Normandie, France
2000 Maison des Arts, Charenton, France
1999 Hall Descartes, Lycée René Descartes, Antony, France
1998 ART FORUM 1998, Montreux ( 24-27 Sept.), Switzerland
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