Jill Baroff
Jill Baroff’s practice is grounded in drawing, but it continually tests where drawing meets data, geography, light and form. Her Tide Drawings begin with empirical records of water levels at specific locations and times, which she translates into grids, concentric circles and linear sequences. Drawn by hand on Japanese gampi, these works trace the cyclical ebb and flow of tides while also registering the disruptions of hurricanes, storm surges and other atypical weather patterns. At once precise and deeply atmospheric, they make visible the patterns through which time moves in nature.
Tides and Hudson River drawings reflect Baroff’s upbringing near New York Harbour and her long engagement with the waterways around New York. The material presence of gampi also points to her time in Kyoto and her sustained dialogue with Japanese architecture, paper and light. Throughout the work, raw information becomes something more than notation: a sensuous structure shaped by hand, process and attention.
In other bodies of work, Baroff allows geometry to become more unstable and self-generating. By painting borders on paper, cutting them away and reintroducing the sheet to water, she creates forms that fold, float and reorganise themselves through a balance of chance and order. More recently, she has extended this language into wood reliefs and wall works, translating the logic of earlier drawings into sculptural space. Here, a bolder palette and shifting play of light heighten the architectural clarity and visual energy of the work, while retaining the same interest in how forms structure themselves and shape the space around them.
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Available Works
Jill Baroff
Species of Space I-VI, 2020
Acrylic paint on Japanese gampi mounted on cotton rag
48.8 × 35.8 cm
19 ¼ × 14 ⅛ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Tide Drawing, Hurricane Isaia, 2021
Ink on Japanese gampi mounted on cotton rag
81 × 81 cm
31 ⅞ × 31 ⅞ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Tide Drawing, Hurricane Laura, 2021
Ink on Japanese gampi mounted on cotton rag
81 × 81 cm
31 ⅞ × 31 ⅞ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Elbe, 2014
Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
115 × 115 cm
45 ¼ × 45 ¼ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Round About Midnight, 2012
Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
116 × 116 cm
45 ⅝ × 45 ⅝ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
'Round Midnight (five spot blues), 2014
Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
115 × 115 cm
45 ¼ × 45 ¼ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Diptych, Yellow Tide Drawings: San Diego and Los Angeles, 2005
Ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
38.8 × 72.8 cm
15 ¼ × 28 ⅝ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Set of Nine Tide Drawings: Corpus Christi, TX, 2006
Ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
35.6 × 35.6 cm
14 × 14 in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Current (Hudson River) 3, 2017
Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
43 × 98 cm
16 ⅞ × 38 ⅝ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Series of Six Drawings : Gustav Landing, (Gulf Coast East, Nome, Savannah, Chesapeake, Gulf Coast West, Honolulu), 2009
Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag
37 × 37 cm
14 ⅝ × 14 ⅝ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
Floating Line Drawing (Double Loop), 2011
Graphite and red wax on Japanese gampi mounted on cotton rag
81.8 × 82.3 cm
32 ¼ × 32 ⅜ in
Price on request
Jill Baroff
For Your Love, 2014
Acrylic on wood
10 × 120 × 100 cm
3 ⅞ × 47 ¼ × 39 ⅜ in
Price on request
Publications
Shows / News archive
Previous Shows
RED
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Jill Baroff_Spatial Measures Online
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Jill Baroff_Spatial Measures
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Jill Baroff: Survey
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Summer Highlights - Selected Works by Gallery Artists
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Delighting The World - Jill Baroff at Mies van der Rohe Haus
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
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A Day's Work - Raum Schroth, Selected by Susan Morris
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