Jill Parisi

Colorburst Pinwheels, Pinned Paper Flowers in Green, Pink, Yellow, Purple

2014

Jill Parisi is a masterful printmaker, who uses many methods and materials to create flora and fauna of imaginary ecosystems. Like a jazz musician, she is riffing on nature, taking colors, structures, etc. from a variety of species and places and reconfiguring them in novel ways. Much of her work reacts to viewer proximity and airflow, which ever so slightly animates the pieces. An observant viewer is rewarded with remarkably detailed patterns or with the discovery of other smaller and more delicate “species” hidden beneath the first layer. Materials such as translucent tissue-weight papers, feathers or glass inform these fantastic and ephemeral botanical species. Parisi’s drawings, prints and sculptures have also been starting points for fabrication in various other durable materials. Parisi’s work has been exhibited widely including in International Print Center New York’s New Prints Exhibitions, The Kraków Printmaking Triennials (2012, 2015), the International Print Network’s Graphically Extended exhibition in Oldenburg (2013) the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville 2016 and at Medjeback in Falun, Sweden. Her work is in various private and public collections such as the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, IA, Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health, New York, NY, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY. She completed public art commissions for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Arts for Transit program in 2012 and DC Government Services in 2016. She was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books in 2005. Parisi earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting and a Master of Fine Arts Printmaking at the State University of New York at New Paltz, New York. She lives and works in New York State.