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
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    • Paintings
    • Philosopher Stones
    • Grid Drawings
    • Artist Books
      • Breaths
      • Circles 3
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39,390 breaths between June 13, 2011 and March 8, 2012
graphite on rice paper
8 x 8 inches
The Tonglen series are durational drawings where I record my own breaths to capture time. The titles of the drawings are the number of breaths followed by the dates between which they are recorded. I create the drawings in marathon sessions lasting up to 12 hours. Tonglen mediation is a Buddhist practice of compassion in which one breathes in others' pain, and breathes out relief from that pain. The Tonglen drawings capture the residue left behind by each breath.


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