Artmill

Dee Hibbert-Jones / 2008

Dee Hibbert-Jones is interested in the ways we struggle to feel secure, manage anxiety, and work to escape reality given the personal and political insecurities of the 21st century. She explores psychological, political and emotional states, making sculptures, drawings and installations that connect personal feelings and public lives.

For ArtMill, Dee and her partner Nomi Talisman (http://www.nomitalisman.info) set up a game of "POST OFFICE" with the students. They were all invited to send a message to the artists, a question, a drawing, and leave it on the ladder "post box" outside the studio. By the following day, the message was "answered" in the same language as the question, and with often sage pieces of cultural and historical information for all students and teachers at ArtMill. It was a lesson in communication and sharing for all of us, and made the world seem a little bit wiser and more humane, for that week.

Hibbert-Jones works independently and in collaboration with individuals and communities creating projects that “fix” emotional feelings, suggest or invite methods of escape, address germ warfare and investigate urban sprawl. The results of these investigations materialize as public interventions, installations, drawings and sculptures in public spaces, gallery installations and on the web. Born in the UK She received her BA (London University), MA (York University) and MFA (Mills College) USA. Her work has been exhibited at the Zokei University Museum, Tokyo, the Kyoto University Art Center, Japan, Galeriazero, Spain, GAS New York, the Southampton Institute for Art, England, CESTA Czech Republic, Northern Arizona University Museum, AZ, among other galleries and alternative spaces. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant (with the Berkeley Arts Center) an Institute for Research in the Arts Grant. She has been awarded commissions from the Packard Foundation and the National Parks Service among other organizations. Hibbert-Jones collaborates frequently with her partner, Nomi Talisman. She is an assistant professor of art at UC Santa Cruz.

Artwork labels

Methods of Escape

This ongoing project of drawings is an illustrated guide to escape. The project depicts escape both physical and mental; escape as denial, distraction, salvation, and rescue. In insecure times, when denial comes easily and anxiety is the norm Methods of Escape offers an escape for every circumstance. Drawings describe both negative and positive space. Red floor markings depict the size of a solitary confinement prison cell (Florida State Penitentiary.) Each drawing is 13 x 20” or 45 x 60” Reeves paper, conte crayon, tape.There are 30 drawings in the series, 2007-2008. Dee Hibbert-Jones is assistant professor of art at UC Santa Cruz, her drawings and sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Resume of Dee Hibbert-Jones

→ Resume of Dee Hibbert-Jones

Links

→ hjdee@ucsc.edu
→ http://deehibbert-jones.ucsc.edu/
→ http://www.psychologicalprosthetics.com