Jane Logemann is an American artist based in
New York City
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, specializing in
abstract aesthetic
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featuring
symmetry
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in
nature
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and calligraphy-hebraic art. She is a member of the
American Abstract Artists
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(AAA) and her art is exhibited in a variety of public galleries including the
Museum of Modern Art
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, the
Walker Art Center
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, and the
Contemporary Jewish Museum
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.
Education
Logemann studied at the
Layton School of Art in
Milwaukee, WI, and has a
Bachelor of Science
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in Fine Arts from the
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Presence in American museums
* ''Rhode Island Landscape 1'', 1984,
Providence Athenaeum.
* ''Rhode Island Landscape 2'', 1984, Providence Athenaeum.
* ''Untitled'' from ''American Abstract Artists Fiftieth Anniversary Print Portfolio 2'', 1986, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
* ''Untitled'', 1987,
Harvard Art Museums
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.
* ''Untitled'' from ''American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 1987,
The British Museum
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.
* ''Untitled'' from ''American Abstract Artists Fiftieth Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 22 of 44 in the Portfolio, 1987,
Whitney Museum of American Art
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.
* ''Abstraction'', n.d.,
Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Book of Glyphs'', 1989, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Human - Hebrew'', 1990, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Zone - Hebrew / Territory - Japanese'', 1990, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''A Hebraic-Arabic Alphabet'', 1990–91, The Jewish Museum, NYC.
* ''Theme – Tool Japanese
ndViolin Hebrew'', 1991, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Friend - Hebrew II'', 1994, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Water Japanese - Seaweed Hebrew'', 1994, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Kaddish, first of a ten-part series'', 1995, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 1997, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Letter-Hebrew'' from ''American Abstract Artists Sixtieth Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 1997, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
* ''Letter-Hebrew-1997'' from ''American Abstract Artists Sixtieth Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 20 of 40 in the Portfolio, 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art.
* ''Letter-Hebrew-1997'', 1997, Harvard Art Museums.
* ''Black Landscape'', 2000, Yale University Art Gallery.
* ''Kaddish 20'', 2007,
The Morgan Library & Museum
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.
* ''American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio'', 2012, Yale University Art Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
1972: Courtney Sale Gallery, Dallas, TX
1975:
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1984: American Landscape, The Sarah Doyle House,
Brown University
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, Providence, RI
1988: Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1989:
Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC.
1995: Letters/Words: Jane Logemann,
HUC Jewish Institute of Religion, NYC
1996: Jane Logemann: Kaddish and New Work, Philadelphia Museum of Judaism, Rodelph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA
New Work, Conde Gallery, NYC
1999: Kaddish & Recent Work, UJA Federation, NYC
2000: Kaddish and Alphabets, Curator: Isabel Wasserman, Gotthelf Gallery, JCC Jacobs Family Campus, LaJolla, CA
2001: Kaddish, Congregation
Beth Shalon Rodfe Zedek, Chester, CT
2003: Abstraction & Language: A Dialogue, La Maison Francaise, The French Embassy, Washington D.C.
Further reading
* ''Aishet Hayil''. Yeshiva University Museum, NYC, 1993.
* American Abstract Artists Journal, NYC, 2006.
* American Artist on Exhibit, Art in Embassies. Exh. cat. Tbilisi, Georgia, 2000, Cover & p. 12, 13.
* Calendar for Collecting for the 21st Century. The Jewish Museum, NYC.
* Calendar for The Jewish Museum, NYC, 2004.
* Chevlowe, Susan. "Kaddish and Recent Work." UJA-Federation, NYC, 1999.
* Collishean van Wagner, Judy. ''Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women''. New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1989.
* Heresies Collective. ''Feminism & Ecology: Earthkeeping/Earthshaking''. Vol. 4, No. 1, 1981.
* Logemann, Jane. ''Abstracts Book I''. Artist's book. 1975.
* Logemann, Jane. ''Abstracts Book II''. Artist's book. 1976.
* Logemann, Jane. ''Abstracts Book III''. Artist's book. 1979.
* Metronom: Libres D'Artista/ Artist's Books. Barcelona, Spain, 1980, p. 86
* Price, Aimee Brown. "Abstraction & Language: A Dialogue." The French Embassy, Washington, D.C. 2003.
* Price, Aimee Brown. ''Diversity - N.Y. Artists''. Exh. cat. Rhode Island: University of Rhode Island, 1985.
* Richter, Elinor. ''The Art of Jane Logemann: A Meaningful Merger of Art and Abstraction''. 2004.
* Richter, Elinor. "Intersections: Reading the Space." ''The Jewish Museum of Australia Journal'', Vol. 10, No. 1 (March, 2005).
* Rush, Barbara. ''The Jewish Year: Celebrating the Holidays''. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2001.
* The Rutgers Archives' Printmaking Studios, 1983, pp. 56–57.
* Soltes, Ori Z. ''Fixing the World: Jewish American Artists of the Twentieth Century''. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press of New England, 2003.
* Soltes, Ori Z. ''Jewish Artists on the Edge''. Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001.
* Soltes, Ori Z. ''Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam''. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
References
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1942 births
Living people
Artists from Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Painters from Wisconsin
American abstract artists
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists