Jill O'Bryan Art

Jill O'Bryan Art

  • EXHIBITIONS
    • "Breathing into the Elements", Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
    • "Breath Taking", New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
    • "Jill O'Bryan" [TXST] Galleries
    • "Mapping Resonance", CCA Santa Fe
    • Margarete Roeder Gallery, NYC
    • "one billion breaths", Phillips Collection, Washington DC
    • "rock, paper, breath", Gallery Joe
    • Uruboros Dance for "Mapping Resonance", CCA, Santa Fe
  • SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
    • "7.8 billion of us breathing together..."
    • A Particular Kind Of Solitude, NYC
    • A Place To Which We Can Come, Brooklyn, 2012
    • "To breathe..." in Las Vegas, NM
    • Take a billion breaths
  • WORK
    • Cone Paintings 2022
    • 2021 - 2022 Element Paintings
    • 2020 Quarantine Drawings
    • The Shape of the Sound of a Breath
    • Tonglen Breath Drawings
    • Archived Breath Drawings
    • X x 20 Breath Drawings
    • Desert Frottage
    • Desert Frottage (squares)
    • on, and just above ground
    • Metate Paintings
    • Early Drawings
    • Early Paintings
    • Philosopher Stones
    • Grid Drawings
    • Artist Books
      • Breaths
      • Circles 3
    • Performance
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795,918,367 breaths
text installed on top panel of the existing turret's louvers
"Robert Walser's math"
Plus or minus several hours or minutes Walser lived 689,856 hours. Derived from this number are his approximate number of breaths, heartbeats, and eye blinks.

Viewers may discover the piece by walking through the garden, and it is by walking all the way around the turret that they experience the entire piece.

Walser's "The Walk" was originally published in 1917.

Exhibition: "A Particular Kind of Solitude: An exhibition inspired by Robert Walser"
in Elizabeth Street Garden, NYC
May 10 - June 1, 2014
Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu


All images copyright Jill O'Bryan

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