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17/3/2003

Jill Baroff

Bartha Contemporary, London

ELEMENTARY MEASUREMENTS
new drawings and digital skies

Gallery N. von Bartha has moved to new premises and is proud to announce the opening of the new gallery space with an exhibition of drawings and digital skies by New York-based artist, Jill Baroff. The opening will take place on Tuesday March 18th from 6 to 9 pm. The exhibition will be on view until April 26th.

The mapping of natural phenomena is usually associated with scientific method. In this exhibition, the drawings and prints of Jill Baroff open this preconception to new interpretations. Based on predictive tide tables, the Tide Drawings render the ebb and flow of bodies of water; making visible the unseen passage of time and mutual influence of the spheres. Her digital prints capture the often overlooked, nuanced gradations of any blue sky.

In the open ocean, the actual rise of the tidally induced wave crest is only one to a few feet. It is only when the tidal crests and troughs move into shallow water, against land masses, and into confining channels, that noticeable variations in the height of sea level can be detected. In turn, it is only when the sky is parsed and rearranged that we are able to clearly perceive the colour variations present. Moments of quietude and reflection open sight to the subtle, often transient nature of our experience. These works render illusive perception concrete.

Jill Baroff has shown extensively in both Europe and the United States. She recently participated in the London exhibition, Minimal Art Ancient China in 2002 and this is her first solo exhibition with the gallery. She has made installations at the Marktkirche in Hannover, Germany, the Basel Art Fair, along with many venues in the United States, and she has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and is a MacDowell Fellow. Drawings by Jill Baroff are currently on view at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and are part of an exhibition entitled ³Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection², at the Georgia Museum of Art, which will travel to the Cincinnati Museum of Art and Bowdoin College Museum of Art later this year.

For further information or press images please contact the gallery. (020 - 7985 0015)

Opening : Tuesday March 18th, 6 to 9 pm

Exhibition on View until : April 26th 2003

Forthcoming exhibitions :
Lisa Prior, Opening April 29th, On view until June 7th
Takashi Suzuki, Opening June 10th, On view until July 27th

Gallery N. von Bartha is open to the public from Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, or by appointment. The closest Underground Station is Ladbroke Grove, the gallery entrance is next to Allastair Little's Notting Hill Restaurant.

Gallery N. von Bartha
Contemporary Art London
First Floor
136b Lancaster Road
London W11 1QU

Tel. 020 - 7985 0015 Fax. 020 - 7985 0016

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