Background
Jill Baroff was born in 1954 in Summit, New Jersey, United States.
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Corrugated Floor Works
Hiroshima
Los Angeles (Wilma)
Hurricane Gustav
San Francisco Bay
Floating Line Drawing (Clip)
Tide Drawing (Hackensack)
Study
Millennium Pair - December 30 and 31
Floating Line Drawing (Antenna)
Jill Baroff
Edit ProfileEducation
In 1976 Jill received Bachelor of Fine Arts at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. Then she attended the Artist Seminars Program at Whitney Museum of Art in New York, United States in 1978. Finally, Baroff had Post Graduate Studies at Hunter College in 1980 - 1981.
Career
Jill Baroff devoted her career fully to art. Since the mid-1990s, she has been strongly influenced by Japanese architecture, which she categorizes as “floor-based”, as opposed to the West’s emphasis on verticality. During a six-month NEA fellowship in Japan, Baroff was captivated by the way light traveled across the weave of her tatami floor during the day; constantly changing the patterns of the mats and consequently affecting the shape and feel of the interior spaces she occupied. In 1997, for an exhibition in Germany, Baroff achieved the same kind of effect using corrugated paper. For the installation at the Bronx Museum Terrace, Baroff chose to work with tree trunks collected from a grove in Upstate New York.
Baroff's most famous work "in a grove" refers both to the site where the material came from, as well as to a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, adapted by Akira Kurosawa in the film "Rashomon", in which multiple eye-witness testimony of an event contains conflicting information. In Baroff’s installation, the top surface of each trunk has been routed by hand to create grooves, which channel light and capture shadow and has been painted with a single color. "In a grove" is a monochrome project that is perceived as intensely multi-colored. The viewer becomes the pin around which visual phenomena pivots.
Jill Baroff’s work is currently represented in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Yale University Art Museum, New Haven. Now the artist lives and works in New York.
Achievements
Works
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The works of Jill Baroff combine conceptual coherence and high material sensitivity. Time and space are the parameters that the artist pursues in her works on paper, primarily Japanese Gampipapier, as well as in her floor installations.
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Born
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Nationality
United States
Education
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1976
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1978
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1980 - 1981