Jill Viney Art
“Barrows are prehistorical burial sites in England. It is a pit structure filled over with earth. The dark inside with the silver exterior creates a luminous covering as the viewer enters the mound. Overhead as in a night sky, three rings of color hover above.”
Jill Viney
“…sculpture has been able to incorporate new materials offered by modern technology. It is worth being reminded that substances like Plexiglass and fiberglas, the basic components of Jill Viney’s work, are quite recent additions to the sculptor’s storehouse. But this has been possible only because sculpture has been able to incorporate qualities like transparency and translucency…Viney’s Baja and Pulse sculptures demonstrates a third possibility…a new kind of sculptural pictorialism.”
Barry Schwabsky, Art Magazine critic, 2000.
“Creating forms that exist within a tradition while defying that tradition, Viney is distinguished from her contemporaries by the use of “living light” and her willingness to allow chance-a flow of light moment to moment–to affect perception.”
Judith Page, Faculty SVA, 2004.
“I wanted the viewer to see a rainbow of colors and, when inside, to feel those colors.”
Jill Viney
“Deep in the Pacific, a fissure in the earth’s crust is the Marianna Trench. Core material escapes into the sea dissolving into particles that rise to form mysterious structures. The black forms are called ‘smokers.’”
Jill Viney