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Oil on panel, 5 X 7”, 2023
Looking at how we use our hands is a part of an on-going investigation into making care and healing visible. It is with our hands that we engage with the world around us, maintaining, tending, and mending. The minimal pallet in these oil paintings invites us to focus on the hands and their actions. The source images for the paintings come from the artist's archive of hands collected from magazines and how-to books over many years. The work endeavoring to visually articulate and celebrate the daily act of tending that is needed in our personal, social and political realms.
Gill has been a Fulbright-Nehru scholar, as well as an artist in residence at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Hyde Park Art Center, McDowell, Haystack Mountain School of Craft and The Ragdale Foundation. Gill was awarded an Artist Support Grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency for her culminating exhibit Broken Yet Whole at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences. Gill received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute and went on to earn her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gill calls Northern California, Northern India, and Chicago home. Currently she is nestled in Chicago, IL where she maintains a studio at Mana Contemporary.
Oil on panel, 5 X 7”, 2023
Looking at how we use our hands is a part of an on-going investigation into making care and healing visible. It is with our hands that we engage with the world around us, maintaining, tending, and mending. The minimal pallet in these oil paintings invites us to focus on the hands and their actions. The source images for the paintings come from the artist's archive of hands collected from magazines and how-to books over many years. The work endeavoring to visually articulate and celebrate the daily act of tending that is needed in our personal, social and political realms.
Gill has been a Fulbright-Nehru scholar, as well as an artist in residence at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Hyde Park Art Center, McDowell, Haystack Mountain School of Craft and The Ragdale Foundation. Gill was awarded an Artist Support Grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency for her culminating exhibit Broken Yet Whole at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences. Gill received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute and went on to earn her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gill calls Northern California, Northern India, and Chicago home. Currently she is nestled in Chicago, IL where she maintains a studio at Mana Contemporary.