Jill Hackney
USA (United States)
www.jillhackney.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
When I see light on an object I see it in layers. I see not only the color of the object, but also the color of the light, direct or reflected and it’s impact on the object. The light creates a connection in the composition, each object absorbing and reflecting, becoming a mirror of it’s surroundings. I strive to compose a vignette with a sense of a broader environment and a harmony of positive and negative space.
I like to use unfinished boards to create my still life oil paintings. The natural texture of the wood often lending it’s own organic layer to the composition. The brushes I use are just simple bristle brushes which I trim. The brushes, feeling like an extension of my arm, leave their own mark which help to create the pattern I use to paint. My strokes are vertical and linear, I use these strokes to paint the total composition. I have really come to enjoy applying the paint in layers, each giving more depth to the image. The layers build up lines of different colors which help me to express the layers of light which wash across the objects in my still lives.
Every time I begin a new piece I am filled with both confidence and insecurity. Knowing I have created beautiful images, I believe I can get through each new painting, yet the process is always daunting. Creating a painting is like jumping off of a cliff and I must create a soft landing. I am always in awe of the work when I am finished.
When the paintings are done they often evoke in me a feeling of nostalgia, watching the rain on a window pane, feeling the sunlight on a summer evening. Synaesthesia, simply, means a union of the senses, one sense inciting another. This seemed to fit well with my art, as for me, the beauty of the work always awakening feelings of joy, serenity and peace.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Jill Hackney grew up in New Orleans where she attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). She went on to study painting and drawing at Louisiana State University where she earned a BFA. Jill was also awarded a scholarship and spent a semester at the Cleveland Institute of Art where she studied painting. Upon completion of her BFA she worked as a photographer, floral designer, high school art teacher, and Leisure Course art teacher at Louisiana State University. She was a founding member and twice president of Studio 801, an artist cooperative in Baton Rouge, which exhibited tri-annually. She is currently working in the media of oil paint. Jill focuses on figure, still life, landscape and portraiture as subject matter for her work. Jill currently exhibits with Ann Connelly Fine Art in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Grand Contemporary in Lafayette, Louisiana, Harris Gallery in Houston, Texas, Blue Gallery in Three Oaks, Michigan and Xen Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Artists Statement
When I see light on an object I see it in layers. I see not only the color of the object, but also the color of the light, direct or reflected and it’s impact on the object. The light creates a connection in the composition, each object absorbing and reflecting, becoming a mirror of it’s surroundings. I strive to compose a vignette with a sense of a broader environment and a harmony of positive and negative space.
I like to use unfinished boards to create my still life oil paintings. The natural texture of the wood often lending it’s own organic layer to the composition. The brushes I use are just simple bristle brushes which I trim. The brushes, feeling like an extension of my arm, leave their own mark which help to create the pattern I use to paint. My strokes are vertical and linear, I use these strokes to paint the total composition. I have really come to enjoy applying the paint in layers, each giving more depth to the image. The layers build up lines of different colors which help me to express the layers of light which wash across the objects in my still lives.
Every time I begin a new piece I am filled with both confidence and insecurity. Knowing I have created beautiful images, I believe I can get through each new painting, yet the process is always daunting. Creating a painting is like jumping off of a cliff and I must create a soft landing. I am always in awe of the work when I am finished.
When the paintings are done they often evoke in me a feeling of nostalgia, watching the rain on a window pane, feeling the sunlight on a summer evening. Synaesthesia, simply, means a union of the senses, one sense inciting another. This seemed to fit well with my art, as for me, the beauty of the work always awakening feelings of joy, serenity and peace.
EDUCATION
1986-1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting and Drawing,
Louisiana State University
1989-1990 Cleveland Institute of Art
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2006-Present Duane Reed Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63105
www.duanereedgallery.com
2006-Present Blue Gallery,16 S. Elm St., Three Oaks, Michigan.
www.bluegalleryart.com
2006-Present Harris Gallery, 1100 Bissonnet St.,
Houston, TX 77005
www.harrisgalleryhouston.com
2005-2008 Grand Contemporary, 222b Jefferson St,
Lafayette, LA 70501
www.grandcontemporary.com
1998-Present Ann Connelly Fine Art, 711 Jefferson Hwy.,
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
www.annconnelly.com
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
Three Person Exhibition
April
2008 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
Two Person Exhibition
May
2007 Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
Three Person Exhibition,
November
2007 Xen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Group show
November
2007 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA.
Synaesthesia, solo exhibition -
November
2006 Harris Gallery, Houston TX
Perceptions of Reality, group show - July
2006 Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, LA
Group show - May-June
2005 Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, LA
Serendipity, solo show - November-December
2005 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Still Life, group show - October
2005 Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, LA
A Grand Event, group show - January-February
2004 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Jill Hackney, solo exhibition - May
2004 Weekend Living in Montecito Design Showhouse
Group show - February
2000 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Spirit, group show - November
2000 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Spring, featured artist, group show - May
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Art Galleries and Artists of the South
Vol. 6, Issue 1 May-August issue, page 72
2006 Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience
Tompkins / McMahon, page X, "Three Lemons"
2006 Southern Accents magazine
"Windmark Beach Showhouse"
Vol. 29, No. 4 July-August issue, page 95.
2004 Country Roads magazine
Cover - November issue
2004 Traditional Home magazine
"The Pampered Guest -
Traditional Home Weekend Living Showhouse"
September issue, pages 158-159, 161.
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Blue Cross, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Turner Industries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Echo V
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Echo VII
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2008
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Echo II
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Echo I
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Echo III
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Echo VIII
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Red Apples
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2008
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Artichokes
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Persimmons
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2007
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Green Apples
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