Jill Sebastian
Jill Sebastian (born 1950 in Libertyville, Illinois)[1] is an American educational innovator, integrated public artist and multi-media artist.[2]
Early life and career
Jill Sebastian characterizes herself as growing up in small towns within the
Besides her teaching career, she has had a full professional artistic career including sculpture, public art, installations, and collaborations. Her early solo exhibition at Berth Urdang Gallery blended unraveled narratives with cinematic ideas made physical in text-clad sculpture. Subtle questions of place, perception and movement continue to permeate her installations, drawings and interdisciplinary collaborations shown in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities in the USA. The first installation in The Milwaukee Art Museum’s new Calatrava-designed addition was her site-specific collaboration with Wild Space Dance Company (2005). Sebastian’s public works include a playable musical fence in New Orleans,[3] Eclipse Lake Bluff Terrace, Milwaukee, WI, Vliet Street Commons in Washington Heights, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Midwest Airline Center portals located in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Center.[3] Possibly the most controversial work is her Philosophers' Stones commissioned in 2004 by the City of Madison, Wisconsin and removed in 2015. After her 55 granite and bronze forms fell under much blame for unwanted behavior, the arts board decided to remove 11 stones.[5] She held an event she named State Street Stories: A Requiem, to say farewell to the project "that didn't entirely happen."[6]
Currently Jill Sebastian lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[3]
More recent selected exhibitions
Elaine Erickson Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Meaningful Object, curated by John Balsley 2008
Milwaukee Art Museum, Print Portfolio, curated, and printed by Daryl Jensen 2004
Cardinal Stritch University, Mequon, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Sculpture 2002
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Process curated by John Richards 2000
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, 1999
Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Art as Collaboration 1998
Skuggi Gallery, Rockford, Illinois 1996 and 1997
Public art commissions
New South Campus Union,
IN:SITE, My Vote Performs, video installation Suffragium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2008
State Street, Madison, Wisconsin streetscape Philosophers Stones with Ken Saiki Landscape Architects and MSA Professional Services 2003
Genome Center,
Washington Heights, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pocket park Vliet Street Commons, 2002
Lake Bluff Terrace, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sculpture Eclipse 2000
Midwest Airlines Convention Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, integrated art, with Woodland Pattern Book Center, Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates and Engberg/Anderson Design Group 1998
Toucan Du, New Orleans, Louisiana, integrated art, Untitled fence installation 1993
Selected collections
Kit Basquin, New York, New York
Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Carol Engelson, New York, New York
Entertainment Productions, Birmingham, Michigan
First Bank – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
George and Angela Jacobi, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jane Langley, Pacific Palisades, California
Donald Levy, Palm Springs, California
Pamela Levy, Aspen, Colorado
Madeleine and David Lubar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida
Ellen Sollod, Seattle, Washington
Buzz Spector, St. Louis, Missouri
Bertha Urdang Estate, Tel Aviv, Israel
Webcrafters, Madison, Wisconsin
References
- ^ "Jill Sebastian (1950-)". MOWA. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Prof. Jill Sebastian Honored As Woman of Influence". Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. miad.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Sebastian. "Jill Sebastian". Jill. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "Jill Sebastian." Personal interview. 26 Apr. 2016.
- ^ Pieschel, Madeline (25 June 2015). "Behind the Art – Jill Sebastian on Spaces and Places (Video)". WPCA blog. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ Breyer, Allison (11 August 2015). "Philosopher's Grove sculpture artist says goodbye". ISTHMUS. Retrieved 26 April 2016.