Jill O'Bryan Art

Jill O'Bryan Art

  • 2020 Element Paintings
  • 2020 Quarantine Drawings
  • 2020 Breath Drawings
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • [TXST} Galleries
    • "Mapping Resonance", CCA Santa Fe
    • Margarete Roeder Gallery, NYC
    • Phillips Collection, Washington DC
    • "rock, paper, breath", Gallery Joe
    • Uruboros Dance for "Mapping Resonance"
  • SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
    • "To breathe..." in Las Vegas, NM
    • A Particular Kind Of Solitude, NYC
    • A Place To Which We Can Come, Brooklyn, 2012
    • Take a billion breaths
  • WORK
    • On and Just Above the Ground
      • ground
      • ground (squares)
      • on, and just above ground
      • metates
    • Breath Drawings
      • Tonglen Breaths
      • Archived Breaths 2000-2011
      • X x 20
    • Drawings
    • Paintings
    • Philosopher Stones
    • Grid Drawings
    • Artist Books
      • Breaths
      • Circles 3
    • Performance
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"Robert Walser's math"
2014
text printed on cloth
text installed on top panel of the existing turret's louvers
Plus or minus several hours or minutes Walser lived 689,856 hours. Derived from this number are his approximate number of breaths, heartbeats, and eye blinks.

Viewers may discover the piece by walking through the garden, and it is by walking all the way around the turret that they experience the entire piece.

Walser's "The Walk" was originally published in 1917.

Exhibition: "A Particular Kind of Solitude: An exhibition inspired by Robert Walser"
in Elizabeth Street Garden, NYC
May 10 - June 1, 2014
Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu


All images copyright Jill O'Bryan

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