The Department of Art and Art History opens a temporary exhibition of sculpture with artist Jeanine Hill in attendance at 5:30 p.m. in Gallery 406 at Arts West. Exhibition continues through April 20.
In this current body of work, Jeanine Hill utilizes the memory of clay to build objects that become records of action.
The same fluency that a drawn line is able to bring to a surface, she is able to articulate through the creation of form. As we experience the world, we gradually create narrative memory palaces in our minds; small fragments created and combined to produce a narrative that is our own. It is through the examination of personal history and the construction and reconstruction of this landscape that Hill deciphers her own mysteries through the morphology of clay. Exhibition continues through April 20.
Jeanine Hill was born in Alcalde, New Mexico, on a Pueblo reservation where she and her family were surrounded by vast orchards and high canyon walls. Her first exposure to the arts was early on when her father began taking photographs of the traditional Pueblo ceremonies by day and working with wood by night. She was taught the value of storytelling by her mother who used words to shape the world. Jeanine’s own making and storytelling practices were forged out of hours of being lost in the woods of Vermont, and sharing stories with her siblings.