Jean-Marie Guyaux

Long Island City, NY, United States

About Jean-Marie Guyaux

I am a Belgian photographer living in New York City, USA. For over thirty years I have been shooting editorial and advertising work that runs the gamut of still life, fashion and celebrity photography. Since relocating my studio in 2010 across the East River, within the artistic community of Long Island City, I have mostly focused on imagery that reveals the passing of time within an oddly shaped and jagged edged world where sudden mishaps accelerate the process. In series such as Crash and Slash my approach to the contemporary object is not to "look at how beautiful it is" but to "look at what a beautiful thing it has become" and recognize as well as visualize the nature of the metamorphosis. As of late I have discovered the fascinating domain of Digital Art where the few thousand pixels image of the original maker are subverted to such transformation that its original content or genre will only be serving as a construct to a new physicality. My series of iconic imagery originates in the raw data of a picture that is manipulated and distorted via non-photographic software so as to reappear as a new layer of pixels and create an abstraction leading to the re-interpretation of the visual imprinted in one’s memory. By confronting the present, exploration of past and future are left to the imagination. “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction” Pablo Picasso

Education:

Institute St Louis - Brussels, Belgium
School Of Visual Arts - New York City, USA
The New School For Social Research - NYC, USA

Exhibitions:

2018
PLAXALL GALLERY, LIC, NY / Fever curated by Ivana Larrosa and Cristian Pietraplana / Alegory: Irate Skies
PLAXALL GALLERY, LIC, NY / Yours, And Always, Only Yours curated by Tana Sirois and Sharon Taylor / Sensual: Ecstasy or Repulsion
BWAC Wide Open 9, Brooklyn, NYC / Juror Carmen Hermo curatorial staffer at the Brooklyn Museum / Icon: He Kiss He #2
THE WRONG (BIENNALE) / HOMEOSTATIS LAB PAVILLON / “Dizzy Mickey” video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_W84mqJTcMTHE
GALLERY 524, NYC / “postcard from the edge” Visual Aids Benefit / Icon: Dollar #4

2017
ATTITUDE ART GALLERY, Brussels, Belgium / SOLO EXHIBITION / Icons Celebrity and Americana
PLAXALL GALLERY, Long Island City, NYC / Icons: Skin to Skin #1, #2, #3
ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY, NYC / "Et Tu Art Brute?" Curator: Jamie Stern / Icons: Marilyn #3
MENEN CULTURAL CENTER, Menen, Belgium / Lee Ranaldo "Lost Ideas" Festival. Curator: Jan Van Woensel / Tears #17
THE LOCAL, Long Island city, NY / Curators June Kosloff & Bernard Stote / Icons: Wonder Woman + Dart Vader
ENABLE BASIN EVENT SPACE, Long Island City, NY / “Plastique 2”. Curator: William Garret. Sponsor Plaxall Inc, LIC. / Icons: Donald Duck + 3D-thermoform triptych.
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2017/20/licarts_2017_05_19_q.html
ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, NY / Icons: Mickey #1 + Donald Duck
FOUNTAIN STREET FINE ART GALLERY, BOSTON, MA / Icons: Liberty #1
PLAXALL GALLERY, Long Island City, NYC. “8 Loves Exhibition” / Icons: He Kiss He #2 + He Kiss She #6 + She Kiss She #4
METRO PICTURES, NY / “Postcard from the Edge” Visual Aids Benefit / Icons: Warhol #4

2016
ENABLE BASIN EVENT SPACE, Long Island City, NY / Curator: William Garret. Sponsor Plaxall Inc, LIC. / Icons: Mickey #1 as plastic tryptic
PIERRO GALLERY, South Orange, New Jersey / Curators: Meghan Maloney and Wannita Makaroon, Seton Hall University / Icons: various
LOCAL PROJECT, Long Island City, NYC / Curator: John Baber / Icons: Burger #5 + Mac & Cheese #1
SIKKEMA JENKINS & Co, NYC / “Postcard from the Edge” Visual Aids Benefit / Icons: Warhol #4

2015
ASTORIA ART FESTIVAL, NYC / Icons: “Barbie #1” + “Mac & Cheese” + “Nice Day #1” + “Self #1” + “Elvis #1” + “Marilyn #1”
FALCHI BUILDING, LIC, NYC / Long Island City Artists.Org Exhibition / Icons: “Jobs #1” + “Warhol #3”
TAMPA MUSEUM of ART, Tampa, FL / Five by Five 2015 Celebration / Icons: “Liberty #1 + “Nice Day #1”
CREATIVE ART WORKSHOP, New Haven, CT / Icons: “Edward Snowden #1” /
Curator: Geoge Fifield, Director of Boston Cyberarts
ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, NY / Icons: “Liberty#1” + ”Flag #3”
ATLANTIC GALLERY – Chelsea, NYC / “Flora #4” + #5
LUHRING AUGUSTINE GALLERY, Chelsea, NYC / Postcard from the Edge / Icons: “Liberty #1”

2014
LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR DIGITAL ARTS / “Sonic Self”
CHARLES KRAUSE FINE ARTS – Washington DC / “Lines Drawn” /
“Chill #05” + #33 + #44
DARKROOM GALLERY, VT - Wheels / “Smash #04” + “Crash #57”
DARKROOM GALLERY, VT - Blue / “Crash #45”
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY / “Me, Myself & I” / Self Portraits
LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR DIGITAL ARTS / “Exit No Exit #03” + #28 + #42
ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, NY / “Crash #60” + #11
T GALLERY, Denver, CO / “Crash” #21
LUHRING AUGUSTINE GALLERY / Postcard from the Edge / “Crush #23”

2013
CURATE NYC – Guest curator Jim Steranko /”Crash #60”
LOFT 594 Gallery – Brooklyn, NY / “Crush”
GAUDI’S CASA BATTLO INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE – Barcelona, Spain
TREVISAN INTERNATIONAL ART ESPOSITORI – Bologna, Italy /”Crash”
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH – Washington / A Call to Arms / “Shatter”
DIEGO SALAZAR GALLERY – LIC, NY / “Crash” & “Shatter”
CHARLES KRAUSE FINE ARTS – Washington / The Newtown Project / “Shatter”

2012
DIEGO SALAZAR GALLERY – Long Island City, NY / “Crash” & “Slash”
CATHEDRAL ARTS FESTIVAL – Jersey City, NJ / “Crush”
PARALLAX ART FAIR – SoHo, NYC / “Crash” & “Crush”