Jill Musnicki: New Works on Paper

From April 17 through May 18, 2009, The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present Jill Musnicki’s most recent exploration of the insect specimens that continue to engage her creative process. In this new series of gouaches, Musnicki expands her palette and brings fresh, calligraphic brushwork to idiosyncratic forms silhouetted on the white field of each page. These animated studies of individual cicadas, wasps, potato bugs and other insects move between unrecognizable abstractions and more specific representations to reveal the mysterious appeal of their miniature structures.

Trained at the Philadelphia College of Art where she received her BFA in 1989, Musnicki, who was raised in Bridgehampton, returned to the East End of Long Island in the early 1990s after extensive travels in Eastern Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and India. A resident of Sag Harbor, her work has been exhibited in New York, New England and Europe, as well locally at Guild Hall Museum, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller and other Hamptons galleries.

See below for full press release and selected works.