Jane Hart (artist)

Hart has an extensive background[8] as a gallery director, beginning at the Moos Gallery in Miami,[2] where she worked in that capacity from 1980-82.

Afterward, she returned to New York, where she was at the Piezo Electric Gallery[2] until 1984, before moving to London, where she took a position as assistant director in the Angela Flowers Gallery through 1985.[2]

Subsequently, she worked at Marlborough Fine Art in New York[2] until 1990, designing numerous publications for many of the gallery's artists. Upon leaving Marlborough, she moved to Los Angeles, where she remained for over a decade.

In Los Angeles,[8] Hart served from 1990 to 1992 as an assistant director at the L.A. Louver Gallery, where she helped organize significant projects of Wallace Berman, Kienholz, and Jimmie Durham.[2] From 1992 to 1994, she worked as international sales director at Gemini G.E.L.,[2] an artists’ workshop and publisher of limited edition prints and sculptures.

As director at the fine arts publisher Muse [x] Editions[9] from 1994 to 1999, she worked with artists such as Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Gregory Crewdson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, Catherine Opie, Diana Thater, Pae White and Andrea Zittel.[2][9][10]

Hart has written pieces for a variety of art publications including Artnet,[11] the Journal of Contemporary Art,[12] Miami New Times,[13] and Zing: A Curatorial Crossing.[14][15][16] These have included an interview with Antony Gormley,[12] reviews of exhibitions by Jim Hodges, Martin Kersels, and Eve Andrée Laramée, as well as special curated projects and other articles.

From 1996 to present, Hart has been sole proprietor at lemon sky,[17][18] which she founded in 1996 and ran in Los Angeles through 2003 before moving the business to Miami.[19] lemon sky presently exists as an online portal[17] for artists Hart collaborates with, as well as promoting her various exhibitions and special projects.

lemon sky is a contemporary fine art gallery and editions publisher. Since its original founding, the gallery has received critical acclaim from a variety of internationally distributed contemporary fine art limited edition periodicals including ARTFORUM,[20] Artnet,[18] The Contemporary,[21] and others.

Concurrently from 2007 to 2015, Hart was curator of exhibitions for the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, Florida.[22] She was named Best Curator in 2011[23] and again in 2015 by “New Times Magazine” in its annual “Best of” issue, working with artists from the region and elsewhere, organizing fundraisers and guest lectures.[24]

A show of LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya[25] she organized in the 2010 was the center's most well-attended exhibition, attracting 13,000 viewers in eight weeks.[26] During her tenure as curator Hart curated over one hundred exhibitions,[27] including shows by José Alvarez (D.O.P.A.),[28] Aline Kominsky-Crumb,[29] Dave Muller,[30] Charles M. Schulz,[22][31][32][33] TM Sisters, Ed Templeton, Wayne White,[34][35] and Agustina Woodgate.[2] Notable among the exhibits was the 2011 show “Artist Unknown/The Free World”[36] featuring vernacular photography of hundreds of images selected by the artists, John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow.[36] A book, which accompanied the exhibition, includes texts by Hart, the artists, and art historians Jerry Saltz and Marvin Heiferman.[36]

In 2015, Hart returned to focus on independent curating. Among other exhibitions, she organized a multi-venue exhibition[37] and book (published by [NAME] Publications,) “100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art,”[38] spotlighting the work of more than 170 South Florida artists.[39] From August 2015 to January 2017, she curated three concurrent exhibits at the Hilliard Museum of Art[40] in Lafayette, Louisiana, focusing on, respectively, contemporary portraiture by Louisiana artists; the “COMUS” series of portraits by Francie Bishop Good; and studio portraits by Oliver Wasow.[41][42]

In January 2017, Hart curated the exhibition “Champions: Caribbean Artists Breaking Boundaries in South Florida,” which ran through February 11, 2017 at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. This exhibition featured a selection of Caribbean artists living in South Florida, highlighting them through the narratives of their art, working in a broad spectrum of mediums.[43][44]

In November 2017, Hart curated an exhibition titled “SIXTH” at Miami's non-profit gallery Bridge Red, exploring how artists are increasingly exploring issues of critical environmentalism.[45][46]