Beacon Room: Fishing With Matisse, Jebah Baum

Inspired by 20th Century Modernism in the south of France

This exhibition is based on drawings that artist Jebah Baum made during a three month residency at the La Napoule Art Center in the south of France. Channeling energy from the influential modernists that resided there during and after the second world war, Baum worked at a frenzied pace to transfigure their voices in his own oeuvre. The resulting images are both a loving tribute and an impassioned attempt to carry forward the vitality and imagination of this expansive period in visual art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jebah Baum was born in Brooklyn, grew up in the Hudson Valley. He received a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Cornell University. He is a sculptor, painter and printmaker and has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad.