Jillian Freyer: Peculiar Foliage

A Solo Exhibition of Photographs

September 9 – November 11, 2016

Artist Bio

Jillian Freyer (b. 1989) holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, where she has been awarded the John Ferguson Weir Award for overall excellence in the Yale School of Art. She has exhibited her photographs throughout the US and internationally, including the Aperture Foundation, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, LTD Los Angeles, Back Gallery Project, and David Zwirner Gallery. Her work has been featured in various publications, such as T Magazine, GUP Magazine and has been commissioned by GQ, The NewYorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and INC Magazine. Jillian’s work employs still and moving images to explore the notion of experience as touch and emotional and physical endurance performed through female bodies. She is interested in using the camera as a mediator to observe the tension and sensuality between her subjects.