Artist Statement

 

“Look, look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.”

-A. Einstein

 

Jill Viney was born in a coastal town in California.  She spent many hours among the rocks and tide pools.  After moving to New York as an artist, she learned to dive on a short Carribean holiday.  From land, we see the ocean as surface; diving underneath it, one discovers an unknown and mysterious world.  Advances in technology have provided the power to see farther into space and deeper into ocean waters.  Robot spacecraft and submersibles photographed these new visions, making them accessible to the public.

The artist has sought to express those new spaces in her sculpture.  Early on, she worked with enclosed space in plexi or fiberglass; a sculpture that occupied mass but also contained space.  This space was structured to give the viewer changing perceptions of light and color as she or he moved around the sculpture.  Her newest work outdoors follows that interest of color, light, and space, but adds containment in a new form

EDUCATION:  

• 2007-9  Herron School of Art, University of Indiana / Purdue, Indianapolis
• 2007      Long Island University Art Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, New York
• 2004-5    Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis Campus, St. Louis, Missouri
• 2001       Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
• 2000       Trans Hudson Gallery, New York City

• 2006   Postwar to Postmodernism: 3 decades of Columbia Visual Artist, New York City
• 2000  Yaddo Centennial, Open Studio Tour, New York City
• 1999   The Light Show, Islip Art Museum, East Islip – Long Island, New York
• 1998   “Form & Space,” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
• 1997   “New Sculpture,” Trans-Hudson Gallery, New York City
• 1994   “Light & Lightness,” Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
• 1994   “Fabricated Nature,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA

• 2001   Willamette Week, “Visual Arts,” Portland, Oregon, November 28, 2001
• 1998   The New York Times, “Forces from the Soul,” Art Review, New Jersey edition, with photo, March 29, 1998
• 1998   Hunterdon Review, “Art: Form and Space,” March 25, 1998
• 1998  The Star-Ledger, “Art-Sculpture,” New Jersey, March 6, 1998
• 1998   Hunterdon Review, “Form and Space,” New Jersey, March 5, 1998
• 1998   The Star-Ledger, “Flash: Art,” New Jersey, February 15, 1998
• 1997   Review, “New Sculpture,” Margaret Sheffield, March, New York City
• 1994   “Fabricated Nature,” Sandra Harthorn, Boise Art Museum, Idaho

CATALOGUES 

• 2004   “Hubblevision”, Judith Page, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis
• 2000   “Eye and Body: Sculptural Pictorialism”, Barry Schwabsky, Trans Hudson, New York
• 1994   “Fabricated Nature”, Sandra Harthorn, Boise Art Museum, Idaho

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:            

• Yaddo Fellow & Member of the Corporation,
• Saratoga Springs, New York

• Columbia University, NYNEX Art Collection, New York University Medical Center,
• Primerica Foundation (formerly American Can Foundation) Peco Energy Art Collection,
• Pennsylvania; Prudential Art Collection, Newark, New Jersey, Private: California, Connecticut, Florida, New York

• 2007-9    Herron School of Art, University of Indiana / Purdue, Indianapolis      
• 2004-5    “Dwelling,” site specific outdoor sculpture, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
• 1988       Emerald Fund Art Collection, San Francisco, California

• 2004    Gallery Talk: “Hubblevision: New Sculpture,” UMSL, St. Louis, Missouri University Lecture Series: “Perspectives: From New Materials into Sculpture,” UMSL, St. Louis, Missouri
• 2001    “Spatial Biology; viewer, sculpture, and site” PNCA, Portland, Oregon
• 1998    “Form and Space,” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
• 1994    Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA.