In the Project Room, the gallery presents an exhibition, titled Midsection by Jill Downen. In Midsection, Downen employs the metaphoric relationship between bodies and buildings in an installation of sculptural forms. The torso, specifically from the bust to the navel, takes on the role of sculpted building blocks situated in relation to the space of the project room. Jill Downen's art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and models. Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities.
Jill Downen is a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow. Downen was selected for the 2004 Great Rivers Biennial, a grant and exhibition sponsored by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation. Downen has been invited to lecture about her work extensively, including the 2011 Phillips Collection Conversations with Artists series, and the 2007 Luce Irigaray Circle Conference on philosophy in New York. Her art has been reviewed in publications including Art in America, Sculpture, Art Papers, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Times. Recently, the Oklahoma Museum of Art acquired her sculpture for its permanent collection. Downen holds an M.F.A .in sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis as a Danforth Scholar and a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in painting and printmaking. Downen lives and works in St. Louis.
A video of Jill Downen exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. January 2012. (Video Link)
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Breast Block
Concrete
19 x 8-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches (Edition of 12)
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Torso
Lumber, polystyrene, plaster and latex
100 x 24 24 inches
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Torso (detail)
Lumber, polystyrene, plaster and latex
100 x 24 24 inches
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