Artist Info: Jill Storthz
Bio
Born: Little Rock, Arkansas 1978Statement
These drawings are influenced by the visual and emotional landscape of the place I live. I discovered this when I moved to San Francisco from Chicago. Much like my new home, the lines of my work have become softly curved and less harsh, less severe, less tense. At first, I feared I had lost the edginess that defined my work. But I realized change is not always easy, and some seven years later I happily encompass flowers and feather dwellings, spirits and missions, indians, birds, and shapes. In these drawings you will find a splintered ramshackle quality entwined with colored light, earth, and space.
I use sharp calligraphy pens to create these drawings, They are like knives, in the way they slice across the paper. I love the thick heavy black ink that stains the paper - a permanent possibility. Throughout all of this creating, I have found that, every so often, it turns out alright.
Thank you for looking and taking the time to read my attempt to explain these drawings.
Artist's CV
Education
2000 BFA Printmaking; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1998-1999 studies, Slade School of Fine Art in London
Solo Exhibitions
2008 “drawings”, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 “Color Woodcuts and Small Drawings,” Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 “Woodcuts,” Drugstore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “One of One Like This…” Tinhorn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Color Woodcuts,” Tinhorn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2007 “Affair at the Jupiter” Portland Art Fair, with Get This! Gallery
2007 “Draw This!” Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Holiday Print Show”, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum Of California
2006 “Tinhorn Ten” San Francisco, CA
2006 On Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Printmakers Invitational 2005,” Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
2005 “Grand Opening Show,” Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 “Tinhorn Public Works,” Tinhorn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Every Dog Has It’s Day,” Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Printmakers of the Golden State,” Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
2004 “Freedom of Impression,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, (City Hall)
San Francisco, CA
2003 “Woodcuts,” City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Proof(s) of Life,” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “On the Surface: a show of woodcuts,” Chicago Printmaker Collaborative,
Chicago, IL