(born Paris, 1931) French artist who creates
kite and kitetail sculptures. She collaborated with David Tudor and filmmaker
Molly Davies on the three-screen video of her underwater kites Sea Tails
(1983) and with Tudor on the kite installation piece Lines and Reflections
(19871988). Other collaborative projects with Tudor include Tailing a
Dream (1985), 9 Lines, Reflected (1986), Volatils with Sonic Reflections
(1990), and Virtual Focus (1990). Until 1954 she lived in New York, where
her father Pierre Matisse, son of the French artist Henri Matisse, ran his now
historic gallery of modern art. Since then she has lived in Paris. Between 1959
and 1968 she assisted her stepfather Marcel Duchamp in assembling his Bôite-en-valise
(portable museum), and she is the keeper of the Duchamp archives. Also known as
Jacqueline Matisse Monnier. |