Access: Artists in Residence Jill Bonovitz
Untitled
Wire, dried berries and paint
37” x 19”
The work hangs from a wire affixed to the ceiling.
The length of the wire is customizable.
$6,400
Jill has generously extended a 20% discount exclusively for Fitler Club and Offsite members.
“JILL BONOVITZ IS AN ARTIST with an intensely personal aesthetic sensibility. Using the simplest of materials, she builds sculptures with an orientation that is quiet, intimate, nuanced, and poetic…It is this world, the domain of the fragile, the vulnerable, and the exposed, that Bonovitz occupies. She speaks softly through the work, offering an experience, but never demanding an encounter.” – Scott Rothstein, Sculpture Magazine
In her wire works, Jill Bonovitz creates the edges of what is not there. She is guided by intuition and engagement with the material, never certain of a work’s destination. Her work Untitled was made by manipulating different gauges of wire. Bonovitz approaches her sculpture as though she is drawing in the air. After she is satisfied with the form, she applies acrylic paint in certain areas to guide the viewer’s eye around the sculpture.
BIO: Bonovitz studied at Moore College of Art & Design. In 1974, with four other Moore-affiliated artists, Bonovitz cofounded The Clay Studio. Initially established as a stepping-stone for students fresh out of art school, offering affordable studio space and shared equipment, The Clay Studio is now a nonprofit where artists from across the country and around the world cultivate their careers.
In 2019, Jill Bonovitz was awarded the Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art and Design. The Visionary Woman Award is presented to women who have had major impacts in their fields, exemplifying excellence in the visual arts and design, arts advocacy, or philanthropy. Accompanying the award, a solo exhibition was shown in the Galleries at Moore. Jill is in the Collections of The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.