Jane Tuckerman
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Jane Bayard Tuckerman[1] (born 1947)[2] is an American artist. Her photographs, made primarily in black-and-white infrared film, document death rituals and displaced communities across multiple countries. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in photography in 1982.[3] Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Early life and education
Tuckerman grew up in Westport, Massachusetts.[1] She graduated from Garrison Forest School and The Art Institute of Boston,[1] and earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied photography under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.[4]
Career
In 1975, Tuckerman exhibited infrared photographs and works combining embroidery and found objects mounted on photographs at the Addison Gallery of American Art.[5] In 1981, Tuckerman and photographer Sharon Fox curated an exhibition of infrared photography at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.[6] The exhibition produced a book titled Second Sight, with an introduction by poet James Dickey.[6][7]
In early 1985, she traveled to Benares, India, with filmmaker Robert Gardner and photographer Christopher James to photograph the city's death rituals while Gardner was producing what became Forest of Bliss.[8] Her photographs were published in Aperture,[9] exhibited at the Carpenter Center, and later traveled to New York City's American Museum of Natural History.[8] By 1986, Tuckerman was an associate studio professor in Harvard University's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.[8][10]
The Benares project led to subsequent trips to document death practices in other countries.[11] Her series The Displaced documented the lives of people uprooted by conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and was exhibited at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston in 1998.[11]
In 2009, the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, hosted a retrospective of her work, which included photography, sculpture, painting, collage, and collected objects.[12]
Artistic practice
Tuckerman photographs rituals from around the world in black-and-white.[12] She also makes large-scale Iris prints.[12] Her mixed-media works combine torn-paper collage with photographs of interiors and landscapes, and often incorporate painted elements.[11] She makes simple, black "paper dolls" as homes for departed souls.[12]
Recognition
- 1982: National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in photography[3]
- 1987: Visiting artist, American Academy in Rome[4]
Collections
Tuckerman's work is in the following public collections:
- Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts[13]
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire[14]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[15]
- Minneapolis Institute of Art[16]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[2]
- RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island[17]
Personal life
Tuckerman is the daughter of jockey, businessman, and politician Bayard Tuckerman Jr.[18]
In 1971, she married Henry Elliott Foley Jr., a psychologist.[1][5] Some of her work appears in museum records under the name Jane Tuckerman Foley.[14][17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Foley-Tuckerman". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1971. p. 34A.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Summer Palace, Vienna". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NEA Artists Fellowships, 1982". Art in America. September 1982. p. 176.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gainsley, Bonnie. "Untitled – Jane Tuckerman". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Akiba, David (November 15, 1975). "Husband and Wife Photo Show". The Boston Globe. p. 12.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Allara, Pamela (November 1981). "The Scope of Boston Art Is Much Broader Than It Would Appear". ARTnews. p. 131.
- ↑ Tuckerman, Jane; Fox, Sharon (1982). Second Sight: An Aesthetic, Technical and Historical Exploration of Infrared Photography. Introduction by James Dickey. Matrix Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gardner, Robert (March–April 1986). "City of Light" (PDF). Harvard Magazine. p. 33.
- ↑ "Jane Tuckerman". Aperture. Winter 1986. pp. 17–21. JSTOR 24472050.
- ↑ Burlingame, Phyllida (May 19, 1986). "VES: More Than Just a Major". The Harvard Crimson.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Parcellin, Paul (October–November 1998). "Panopticon Gallery/Boston: Sex and Death: Photographs by Jane Tuckerman and Paul Ickovic". Art New England. pp. 38–39. ISSN 0274-7073.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Hill, Shawn (October–November 2009). "Jane Tuckerman: Haunted". Art New England. p. 55. ISSN 0274-7073.
- ↑ "Untitled (interior, newspaper over window)". Harvard Art Museums.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Untitled (Dead deer tied on top of truck)". Hood Museum of Art.
- ↑ "Untitled". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ↑ "Untitled, 1980". Minneapolis Institute of Art.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Untitled". RISD Museum.
- ↑ Buchanan, William (April 16, 1974). "Called father of N.E. parimutuel racing: Bayard Tuckerman, sportsman, official". The Boston Globe. p. 43.
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