Jill O'Bryan Art

Jill O'Bryan Art

  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Breathing into the Moon / Drawing on the Ground, Rule Gallery, Denver
    • "Mapping Resonance", CCA Santa Fe
    • "Jill O'Bryan" [TXST] Galleries, Texas State U, San Marcos, TX
    • "Breathing into the Elements", Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
    • "Breath Taking", New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
    • Jill O'Bryan: New Works, Margarete Roeder Gallery, NYC
    • "one billion breaths", Phillips Collection, Washington DC
    • "rock, paper, breath", Gallery Joe, Philadelphia
    • Uruboros Dance in "Mapping Resonance", CCA, Santa Fe
  • SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
    • "7.8 billion of us breathing together..."
    • A Particular Kind Of Solitude, NYC
    • A Place To Which We Can Come, Brooklyn, 2012
    • "To breathe..." in Las Vegas, NM
    • Take a billion breaths
  • ARTWORK
    • Breathing into the Moon, Series III
    • Breathing into the Moon, Series II
    • Breathing into the Moon, Series I
    • Element Paintings
    • The Shape of the Sound of a Breath Drawings
    • 2020 Quarantine Drawings
    • Tonglen Breath Drawings
    • Archived Breath Drawings
    • Geometry of Breath Drawings
    • Desert Frottage
    • Desert Frottage (squares)
    • on, and just above ground
    • Metate Paintings
    • Philosopher Stones
    • Early Drawings
    • Artist Books
      • Breaths #1
      • Circles #3
      • Desert #2
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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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