Santa Monica Museum of Art Presents
Project Room 2 – Jill Bonovitz: Penetrable Vessels
June 11-August 13, 2005

Santa Monica, CA – May 9, 2005 – From June 11 to August 13, 2005, Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Jill Bonovitz: Pentrable Vessels in Project Room 2. The opening reception is Friday, June 10, 7:30-9pm with support provided by Izze, Ma’ Kai Lounge Patron Spirits, Wild Oats Markets, and Willow Spa.

In Jill Bonovitz: Penetrable Vessels the artist uses the thinnest wire to create in her words “the edges of what’s not there.” These intimate, ethereal, and personal vessel forms, at once intriguing and playful, reveal how the shapes between the wires are just as important as the wires themselves. At certain angles the forms seem to vanish, magically reappearing when seen from a different point of view. In this body of work, Bonovitz explores a range of aesthetic interests – the process of drawing, the physicality of sculpted objects, and the translucency of materials – that have engaged her over over the past twenty-five years of working in clay.

Jill Bonovitz studied at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and is in the public collections of such institutions as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland. Bonovitz lives and works in Philadelphia.

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