Sarah Jean Hill
Bio: Born in Toledo, Ohio, Nicole Jean Hill received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada and a MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has exhibited her photographs extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Through her anthropological approach to art making, Hill photographs familiar spaces and activities within the American cultural landscape. She is currently a faculty member in the art department of Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA.
Artist Statement: My pet portraits address cultivation as a means by which we organize our relationship to the nonhuman. In Towards a Philosophy of Nature, Robert P. Harrison suggests that, “precisely at the moment when we have overcome the earth and become unearthly in our modes of dwelling…we insist on our kinship with the animal world. We suffer these days from a new form of collective anxiety: species loneliness.” While our subjugation of the natural world appears to have irreversibly isolated the human from the nonhuman, my images represent hybrids of nature and culture and examine the ambiguous borders between reliance, interaction and imposition.
Jen Beckman's Hey, Hot Shot winner: Winter 2006
Galleries and Organizations:
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Silver Eye Center for Photography
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
Newspace Center for Photography
First Street Gallery
Jen Bekman Gallery
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Blue Sky Gallery
Shotgun Space
Workspace Gallery
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