Jacques Louis Vidal
contemporary artist & sculptor based in Brooklyn
Jacques Louis Vidal (born 1982) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the School Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, graduating in 2004, and received his MFA from Yale in 2009.
He is a co-founder of interdisciplinary art space KAJE, along with sculptor Kate Levant. He previously ran the project space Know More Games in Gowanus, alongside Brian Faucette and Miles Huston. It was located near other project spaces Primetime and 247365, which became collectively referred to as 'the Donut District,' after a nearby Dunkin Donuts. New York Times art critic Martha Schwendener wrote that it was "Spiritually somewhere between a nonprofit and a commercial space." From 2015 to 2019, he was the resident director of Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island.
Life and work
Vidal was quoted in a 2005 New York Times article about a signpost around the corner from the Whitney Museum of Art, where people were leaving their admission stickers for others to use: "Sometimes people who look like-minded walk out and hand you their sticker. I guess my big thing with it is that there are plenty of people who can pay and I'm not one of them." He was referred to as "a 22-year-old painter and sculptor who lives in Ridgewood, Queens."
In 2006, Vidal attempted to organize a "surrealist county fair" at Metro Mall in Middle Village, Queens, scheduled to take place on April 1. He told a reporter for The New York Times that he pitched the event to mall management ''the first-ever opportunity for the worlds of art and science to truly merge'' by the ''Queens Artists Trust Alliance for Communally Aligned Artists.'' After The New York Times published an article on March 30, Metro Mall canceled the event, which a lawyer representing Middle Village Associates attributed to Mr. Vidal's characterization of the Mall as having an atmosphere that was "stark, impersonal" and "vast."
In 2007, Vidal's first solo show in New York City, Wood Folks is Good Folks took place at Horton Gallery.
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