Jill Simonsen

Exhibition: September 17 through October 11, 2008
Reception: Wednesday, September 17th, 7 to 9 pm

Sloan Fine Art is honored to kick off the Fall 2008 season with a selection of new paintings by Jill Simonsen in the gallery’s project room. In these latest works, Simonsen explores the journey of personal relationships and human disconnection. She uses recognizable and inorganic imagery such as antennas, power lines and buildings as symbols of the various situations and experiences common to all of us. Rendering these elements in a graphic style, she attempts to understand and represent the means by which people communicate successfully or become isolated from each other. Inspired by the people around her and how they interact with their world and each other, Simonsen creates works that are both realistic and hopeful.

Jill Simonsen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Penn State University. She now lives and works blocks from the gallery in New York City's Lower East Side.

Showing in the main gallery throughout the exhbition: Stefan Saffer, Derek Bailey and Will Gaines,
"one guitar, two shoes and countless holes."