About the Artist

Jazmin Quill

Jazmin Quill is a writer and abstract expressionist who works with corroded metal, found objects, sand, and words. At the heart of the work is the in-between. She explores discarded things, scattered evidence that still bears testimony to what was, creating space for all things that can be true at once. 

​Her artwork shares an affinity with the Art Brut and Arte Povera veins of abstract expressionism.
She became Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University where a permanent installation on campus grew into an international human rights exhibition with permanent installations around the globe. Her triptychs create a series of never-ending canvases ​representing the movements of people in our modern world. She works from her studio in the Bay Area, California.

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Artist's Statement

The process begins with a found object.
At the heart of every piece is the search for that tipping point just before a canvas becomes sculpture.

Each piece is forced to pause between its many layers;
sometimes hours, sometimes days, weeks, or months.

​Or years.
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The shapes are rarely planned, nor the colors.
It is a process of attention to lines and textures,
a meditation on the form as it emerges.

​Always present are thoughts what is left of lives and places,
things discarded,
evidence,
testimonies to what was,
​knowing that gravity will begin its work the moment the piece is done,
taking its long turn
in heavy silence. ​

Eucalyptus Bark. Found Object.