Chinatown, New York
Jilaine Jones
A Walk with D. Ann
Orient15 Orient is happy to present A Walk with D. Ann, a solo-exhibition by Jilaine Jones. Featuring a selection of works spanning multiple decades, the exhibition serves as a concise introduction to a nearly fifty-year-long career in sculpture, representing its most essential formal and thematic concerns. Composed of steel, clay, plaster and concrete, the works on view prompt insights into the body and its structuring relationship to environment and perspectival space. “In Jones’ sculptures, textured masses play against steel planes and lanky directional elements. This insistent polarity of organic and inorganic forms incites a felt sense of being in the world that includes both an awareness of perception and the terrain outside its scope—the stutter of comprehension as figures in the distance assert their specificity and then recede.” —Silas Jones A Walk With D. Anne marks the artist’s first show with 15 Orient and her first gallery exhibition in New York since 2001. Jilaine Jones was born in 1959 in London, England and immigrated to the US in 1963. After studying at the College of Ceramics (Alfred, NY) Jones attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) between 1979 and 1983. In 1981, Jones initiated a dialogue with Anthony Caro, and from then on made regular visits to his London studio. In 1983, she worked as an assistant to Tim Scott following her participation in the Triangle Artist Workshop (Pine Plains, NY). Solo exhibitions include: the New York Studio School (2008, New York, NY) Salander-O’Reilly Galleries (2001, New York, NY) and the Paul Mellon Art Center (1999, Wallingford, CT). Her work was included in the 2016 DeCordova Biennial and outdoor sculpture exhibitions at Chesterwood. In 1997, Jones received a Connecticut Commission Fellowship for Sculpture and, in 2012, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. She has participated in residencies including Triangle Arts Association (1983, 1989, 2006), MacDowell (2014), and Yaddo (2019).