Jill
Lear

email: info@galleryshoalcreek.com

New York artist Jill Lear received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a major in French Medieval Literature. A decade later, she enrolled at the New York Studio School to study painting and drawing. Mornings were devoted to painting, afternoons to drawing with noontime art history lectures several days a week. The rigorous program taught her to look and think and to create a metaphor for the experience of seeing a subject.

In 2001, Lear completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT; she was accepted into the Viewing Program at the Drawing Center in New York City in 2006. Her work has been exhibited at the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and at the Wright State University Art Galleries in Dayton, OH, where she was awarded the Purchase Award in the exhibition Drawing from Perception IV juried by Graham Nickson.

Brooklyn Oak I charcoal on paper, / 38 x 50 in.

Brooklyn Oak III charcoal, watercolor on paper / 25 x 36 in.

Erythrina Caffra XI charcoal, acrylic on paper / 30 x 41 in.

Joshua Tree I charcoal, egg tempera on paper / 30 x 41 in.

O. I. Grove I charcoal, egg tempera on paper / 25 x 36 in.

Ulmus Glabria Camperdownii I charcoal, watercolor on paper / 38 x 50 in.

Untitled charcoal, acrylic on paper / 25 x 50 in.

Untitled charcoal, acrylic on paper / 30 x 41 in.

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