Pulkkoch 1 (Wildflower 1), 2025
1050 Lego bricks in Braille
20 x 20 x 1.5 inches
Pulkkoch 2 (Wildflower 2), 2025
1100 Lego bricks in Braille
20 x 20 x 1.5 inches
Pulkkoch 3 (Wildflower 3), 2025
1200 Lego bricks in Braille
20 x 20 x 1.5 inches
JAYE MOON
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
ARTIST BIO
Jaye Moon (b. 1963) has been crafting interactive braille paintings with LEGO bricks since the 1990s. Her LEGO Braille paintings demonstrate her innovative approach to accessible art, emphasizing inclusivity and tactile engagement. In these works, Moon translates excerpts from movie scripts, song lyrics, poetries, and prose in literature with a distinct approach, including her writing. Her work is an abstract painting for all viewers with and without the ability to decipher Braille. Touching the surface of the work transcends its aesthetics and takes on the meaning embodied within.
Moon’s work has been exhibited in Brussels, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo. Her museum exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum in New York, the Nam June Paik Art Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, and the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea. Her artwork has been reviewed in art publications, including Art in America, Artforum, Artnet, Time Out, and News Week Magazine, and featured in the Korean middle school art textbook. She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute. Jaye Moon is the 2025 Hall of Fame inductee of the New York Foundation of Art and is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York and Seoul.
SPOTLIGHT
Video credit:Â NYFA
Jaye Moon
NYFA’s 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, New York
Gallery artist Jaye Moon was honored at The New York Foundation for the Arts for the 2025 Hall of Fame Benefit on Tuesday, March 18, held at Gotham Hall in New York. Breaking barriers, her LEGO Braille paintings demonstrate her innovative approach to accessible art, emphasizing inclusivity and tactile engagement. NYFA’s annual Hall of Fame Benefit is a vibrant celebration of the arts and an acknowledgment of the remarkable artists who have made profound impacts in the arts and those who sustain artistic vision with unwavering integrity.
Wings of Desire
An Interview with Jaye Moon by Hyewon Yi
April 30, at 5PM at Jennifer Baahng Gallery
On April 30, 2022, in conjunction with the opening of gallery artist Jaye Moon’s solo exhibition “Wings of Desire” (March 25 – April 27, 2022), the artist was interviewed by Hyewon Yi, the Director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY Westbury. The conversation between Yi and Moon covers Moon’s career trajectory from her days as an art student in Korea to her recent practice, which focuses on visual communication with particular references to film. “Wings of Desire” featured Moon’s ongoing body of conceptual work that utilizes a numerical system and the colors of Legos within the binary logic of Braille.
Related:
Jaye Moon is included in the New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition
