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Jill Gussow—Mixed Media Artist

Jill Gussow is a mixed media artist in Rochester, NY. She has exhibited her work nationally for 25 years, including exhibits in California, New York City and Sao Paulo Brazil. She has taught painting, drawing and photography in various universities in the Rochester area for 20 years and she has taught workshops and lectured throughout the country.

Artist Statement

I have spent my life creating art and surrounding myself with imagery rich in personal meaning, color and pattern. My art uses a variety of materials, media and techniques. I use paint, paper, fabric from recycled clothing, metal, wood, etc. I draw on traditional crafts, including paper cutting, needle work and jewelry construction. In all this variety there is a solid vision and an ideology. I use color, richness of pattern and complexity of the prosaic to champion its relevance.

The creative process is a spiritual process based on the belief that when I start to create, there is something I don't know that will gel and become apparent to me by the time I am done; that the materials and what I do with them create content; that layers of material and action create layers of meaning.

I support this interest whenever possible, looking at traditional crafts and trying to decipher how symbols are used.

—JILL GUSSOW

from “Metaphors in Rome”