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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A PLACE TO WHICH WE CAN COME an exhibition at the abandoned Convent of Saint Cecilia: Brooklyn
2011
13 black and white photos and a light bulb
This installation in one of the nuns’ cells documents all of the other cells in the convent.

The nuns' self-imposed "confinement" (as part of a spiritual commitment) exposes the institutionalization of spirituality as an oddly successful container. These cells were private places. Simultaneously there is an equal but opposite characteristic of their design. A window (standard sized, but that takes up at least half of the wall in which it is placed) is at one end of each narrow room, a door to the corridor at the other, creating a tunnel between interior and exterior, also a challenging place to lodge oneself.


All images copyright Jill O'Bryan

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