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Jill Conner

New York
As seen in: Medium, Substack, Artnet, Interview Magazine, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, RIOT MATERIAL, Move Magazine (AAMVA)
Covers:  Art, Art exhibitions, Art history, History and Artists' biographies.
An evolving archive of emerging contemporary artists, directed by Jill Conner, with a specific focus on visibility and legacy.
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Cézanne's Drawings at MoMA

Cézanne's Drawings at MoMA

Medium — While walking through "Cézanne Drawing" at the Museum of Modern Art, page after page of the artist's sketchbooks unfold across several rooms. Dark, hand-drawn lines oscillate between gray, silver and black tones while silhouettes of objects such as apples, oranges, flower-filled vases and stationary models unfurl and unwind before one's eyes.
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Richard Pitts: Black and White

Richard Pitts: Black and White

blurb.com — Richard Pitts: Black and White at amArtHouse
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The Studio of Light

The Studio of Light

Medium — A common desire directed toward painting is the wish for the ability to connect directly with the material through an imaginative window of nostalgia. Although this is the memory of a time that has never existed, historic paintings typically bring these moments to life, as seen in the 2017 movie titled Loving Vincent .
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set

google.com — The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force.
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Nice and Wet

Nice and Wet

artnet — "Water, Water," curated by Lilly Wei, Apr. 3-May 17, 2003, at the Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1120
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artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Golden Clay

artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Golden Clay

artnet — A tightly constrained but nevertheless infinite universe awaits visitors to the current exhibition at the Newark Museum, "Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy." Via 175 examples of what the museum calls "artist-made studio ceramics," curator Ulysses Grant Dietz examines "what makes great pots."
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artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Roots of Spectacle

artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Roots of Spectacle

artnet — Matt Marello, a video artist who has been showing in New York since 1996, ushered in the new art season at Pierogi in Brooklyn with a four-part video installation titled, "The Pollock Project." Perhaps better described as "The Pollock Projection," the piece takes footage of Jackson Pollock, John Bonham and Bruce Lee in action, but replaces the images of the original stars with that of Marello himself.
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artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Fast and Furious at FIAC

artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Fast and Furious at FIAC

artnet — For its 30th anniversary, the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris, otherwise known as FIAC, showcased 175 galleries from 22 countries at the high-tech Paris Expo complex at the Porte de Versailles, where the fair has been since 1999.
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Tied Together

Tied Together

Whitewall — Issue 2
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Bubble Gum Crisis

Bubble Gum Crisis

Whitewall — Issue 3
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Art & Animal Rescue

Art & Animal Rescue

Medium — Jill Conner: Gigi, your paintings are phenomenal to look at - how long have you been doing this? Gigi Garner: It just happened rather organically, as I started painting during the pandemic to keep from going stir crazy. I first mentioned it on Twitter and posted some of my work.
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Goya's Graphic Imagination

Goya's Graphic Imagination

Medium — A Review Goya's Graphic Imagination curated by Mark McDonald is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and presents over 100 drawings and prints that reflect the expressions of an independent mind whose charisma evokes those Aristotelian feelings of pity and fear.
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Cherry

Cherry

Medium — A Film Review Based on Nico Walker's 2018 novel of the same name, Cherry drops viewers into a series of flashpoints that emerge from one man's return to the center of the opioid crisis in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Medium — Set in the late 1940s, The United States vs. Billie Holiday begins in the quiet offices of journalist Reginald Lord Devine (played by Leslie Jordan) who interviews Billie Holiday (played by Andra Day) about her song "Strange Fruit" that had remained controversial from the start due to its slow-sung details of a lynching.
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End Game

End Game

Medium — Last Summer as New York City began re-opening after a three-month lockdown, the Massey Klein Gallery quietly opened "Elemental" a two-person exhibition that presented a selection of new black, marble sculptures by Claire Lieberman: Bunny Bomb (2020), Butterfly Machine Gun (2020), Fluffy (2020) and Flower - Andy Warhol. (2020).
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Fragmented Memories

Fragmented Memories

blurb.com — About the Book Richard Pitts' collaged memoirs bring together images that debate how the world is perceived versus experienced.
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AS | Projects

AS | Projects

artists-studios-projects.com — January 4 - February 14, 2021 "Flare" by Kimberly Schneider features a selection of 25 photograms that are part of a larger, photographic series initially started by the artist during the Quarantine of 2020.
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AS | Projects

AS | Projects

artists-studios-projects.com — presents 17 abstract paintings that explore the nature of gravity as it interacts with paint and surface materials. Across each surface, Supak introduces multiple shades of color through a very limited number of applications. Traces and echos balance equally while silhouettes of negative space begin to form.
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The Top 5 Titles of 2020

The Top 5 Titles of 2020

Medium — The overwhelming emptiness that enveloped the streets of New York City appear in a series of new drawings by Ethan Shoshan. Collated into a tome titled Signs , Shoshan began portraying the overnight changes that began in March with the statewide lockdown, followed by protests and the destruction of private and public property.
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AS | Projects

AS | Projects

artists-studios-projects.com — by lightens the impact from the Quarantine of 2020 by taking viewers outdoors on a journey through the grand, airy sunsets of New York City. Utilizing a systematic, meditative process, Manso walks across a rooftop, drawing luminescent lines of varying colors in space to create calming environments of poppy fields, bamboo gardens, desert landscapes, a vegetable garden and a pond that is full of white water lilies.
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AS | Projects

AS | Projects

artists-studios-projects.com — Relocation
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Richard Pitts: Recent Work

Richard Pitts: Recent Work

blurb.com — Over the course of five decades, Richard Pitts has migrated through the margins of New York City's art world despite a flourishing career that began in the early 1970s and lasted until the late 1980s, when the popularity of the art market crashed. In 1983 John Russell praised Pitts as an interpreter of the classic American paradise.
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‎Richard Pitts: Recent Work

‎Richard Pitts: Recent Work

books.apple.com — ‎Over the course of five decades, Richard Pitts has migrated through the margins of New York City's art world despite a flourishing career that began in the early 1970s and lasted until the late 1980s, when the popularity of the art market crashed. In 1983 John Russell praised Pitts as an interpreter...
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Sublime Subversions

Sublime Subversions

Medium — When Experience Was Art Just south of Paris on October 19th, 1960 Yves Klein and his wife visited the suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. It was a slightly overcast day and the Kleins were meeting with friends at 5 rue Gentil-Bernard in order to coordinate the artist's most stunning yet perplexing act of art to date.
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