Mirabilia
Solo Exhibition | Jillian Moore
Second floor gallery
Second floor gallery
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Exhibit Info & Statement
April 21, 2025 - June 21, 2025
Solo Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
MirabiliaThis is an exhibition of objects that are exuberantly uncanny. Juicy candy colors and buzzy patterns collide across shapes reminiscent of fruiting bodies, organs, mineral specimens and cell diagrams. A form that feels decidedly botanical might erupt from something vaguely mineralogical, all constructed from repurposed styrofoam, encased in dozens of layers of paints and resins, and perhaps even glitter. Recognizable shapes arrive, but the scale, position, or quantity is all wrong. Flat surfaces and angles are rare and awkward, implying some sort of incision from a larger, enigmatic structure. I don’t like to keep things simple, and my curiosity as well as my sense of humor are primary drivers for this work.
As an artist, I am making my best and most joyous pitch for a radical form of acceptance. If I can create something so bizarrely compelling that a viewer falls in love, possibly even in spite of their own instinctive discomfort or confusion, then I have left my audience more open-minded. For the viewer who looks at the world through the same lens that I do, one where we should approach the unknown with enthusiastic curiosity, I hope I have given them comfort that they are not alone. This work is an invitation to reckon with discomfort around the unknown and an invitation to give in to wonder. -Jillian Moore she/they Support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority, awarded to Jillian Moore. About the ArtistJillian Moore is an artist and writer based in rural Cedar County, Iowa working primarily in the field of contemporary jewelry as well as sculpture. Moore's work is inspired by forms in the biological world and amplified by an interest in the fantastical. Operating with a background in metalsmithing and a foreground in experimental resins and other plastic processes, Moore's work is comprised of a variety of new materials and techniques executed with the obsessive, monomaniacal approach of a craft discipline training. "Our natural tendency to seek out patterns results in a sensitivity to the congruities in biological forms. Deliberate exploitation of these phenomena results in objects that are both ambiguous and evocative. Some are organs removed from the body in which they once belonged, revealing structures with unknown functions.”
Moore's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions in Munich Jewellery Week, a "new artist feature" at Galerie Prunkwerk in Hamburg, and a group exhibition with the Haarlems Sieraad Collectief in the Oude Lutherse Kerk in Amsterdam. Moore's work can be found in the collections of the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. |
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