I love when stuff like this happens: an old friend finds my blog and actually CALLS to tell me that she has a great Brooklyn event to share.

Love it. 

I also love to hear the story of how she got here from there to here. From the mid-1980’s to the mid-1990’s, artist Jill Kirschen and I used to work together on videos. She was a master of music for video and I relied on her talents for many years when I was a video producer. It was always a blast to work with her  because she knew her stuff and we always had great conversations in the process.

Now she’s a visual artist with a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Recently she got her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and she’s currently in the midst of completing a masters degree in art education. Talk about reinventing yourself.

Love that, too. 

Here she writes about her work on her website: “I’m very interested in visually representing the idea of subtext, layering, lyricism and rhythm.  To best do this I work with a variety of media; paint, fabric, photographs, found objects, and most recently, remnants of clothing worn by people close to me.”

Jill  started out by making collages with paper, scissors, and glue. But then she got swept up into a love affair with digital manipulation. “However, I started to miss the pure physicality of making work and really getting my hands dirty, and am now happily once more back to my roots,” she writes.

You will have a chance to see Jill’s work at a show that’s opening at the Yashar Gallery (276 Greenpoint Avenue, Building 8 Ground Floor) on Thursday from 6-9PM. The show will run through July 24th.

Above is a picture of Jill. She looks exactly the same and I haven’t seen her in MANY years.