Jill Ian is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA pursuing their BFA in sculpture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They use painting, writing, tattoo, performance and video to employ their ideas into visual language. Just completing their thesis show, they are currently working on a guerilla art project using an abandoned phone booth and hoping to get others involved.

My studio practice is an immersive and ongoing reevaluation of their relationship to relationships. From this questioning perspective, artworks emerge that are both ethereal and corporeal. Pulling from my personal archive of photographic and tactile memories, they record and retell as a means of assessing interpersonal relationships. Exposing simple emotions that are often interpreted as convoluted, I engage in honesty, self-assessment, and mirroring. Embracing and revealing the inherent struggle in this exploration, I seek a world in which we would all engage in this work for the betterment of all.