Jillian Blackwell
Origin:
Fort Worth, Texas
Birth Year: 1989
Jillian Blackwell’s work recognizes the traces that come along with our communication and our experience of the physical world. She is curious about what happens on the periphery, the things we deprioritize as we move through the world, the sensations that we ignore. In the space of the insignificant are the most raw forms of the experience of being alive and being human. Through her work, Blackwell asks: what are the things that travel with the things that carry meaning, how can we know them, and what is their significance?
—You See—It Had Tension—
Plaster, glow-in-the-dark paint
200 Word Artist Statement
Letter beads, pony beads, twine
10.5" × 6"
2,250 Feet from River to Rim
Cuisenaire rods; black ceramic rods; terracotta ceramics rods and cubes; one found red plastic cube; trunk of a Christmas tree from 2022, sawn into sticks; towel printed with an image of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, taken Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 1:13pm.