Pierre Jacquemon (1936 – 2001) was a French-American contemporary artist, and a key 20th-century representative of the Lyon school of painting.
Non-figurative painter since 1955,[3] in France he participated in milestone exhibitions such as Antagonisms, Congress for the Freedom of Culture (Antagonismes, Congrès pour la Liberté de la Culture) at the Palais du Louvre - Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1960).
[6] In New York, he settled in the Lower East Side and had his first solo exhibition at the then well-known Paul Bianchini Gallery[7] in 1963.
His largely abstract (although kind of primitive symbols are often used) and atmospheric works have a mysterious feel: "Absent any movement, any defined form, Jacquemon's paintings are essentially meditative".
He always followed a very personal, poetic and humble path certainly influenced by the Beat Generation and American New Age atmosphere, as described in Irving Stettner's Stroker: "After all it only takes a moment or two to look at a painting by Pierre Jacquemon: yet in a split-second, or wink of an eye we jump our skins, end up transfixed: immediately we are plunged into a world of timeless space, able to witness planets colliding, the hot red ball at the center of the earth, the flery tails of shooting comets, resplendent meteor showers".