This body of work highlights the natural world and the elusive space of the horizon—the contact point where the earth meets the sky, or the sky meets the water. I’m exploring the idea of an "absent presence” where what is most important is perhaps that which is no longer there. This work attempts to express a feeling of optimism and hope through inevitable absence and loss, and to convey a sense that the horizon might be a point of restoration: a space where there is a convergence between expectation, destiny, desire, hopelessness, distance, and vision.
—Jill Oberman
Jill Oberman earned her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Crafts, and her BA from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She has been a resident artist at numerous art institutions, notably Anderson Ranch, the Archie Bray Foundation, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Oberman currently lives in Red Lodge, Montana, where she works as Curator and Gallery Coordinator at the Red Lodge Clay Center. Her ceramic sculptures have been widely exhibited throughout the United States.