Jill Jeannides, Painter
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Jill Jeannides was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the northern suburb of Lake Forest. As a child, she trained as a competitive tennis player and figure skater.
In her approach to painting, she uses the same discipline learned through athletic training to perfect her unique style and technique.
“I like speed,” she said, referring to her use of airplanes, automobiles and freeways to represent the dizzying pace of modern life. Using digital footage, she stakes out locations throughout the world and uses the images to analyze moments of cultural exchange.
Unlike other artists who create from what they feel, Jeannides was taught to “paint what you see and not what you think. This techinique allows her to experience communion with her locations by deconstructing them with her eye and then reconstructing them with her hand. In that way, she creates her own relationship to that location.
“I have always been interested in culture’s relationship to location,” she says. “Globalization uses media culture to replace local cultures.”
Jeannides believes that globalization also severs the tie between location and people. For her, this creates a discrepancy between life as she experiences it and life as it is portrayed by media culture.
In 2007, Jill participated in two prestigious group art shows. In March 2007 she took part in a multimedia exhibit called “Dreams and Possibilities” at the Whitney Museum in New York City. She created a video monologue that was displayed via podcasts throughout the exhibition. In December 2007, she was invited to show 16 paintings and screen prints at Stanford Art Spaces at the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University.
