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Jill Corson is a photographer and performance artist who lives and works in New York City. She earned a BA in print journalism from Georgia State University. After studying arts administration in Europe in a New York University graduate seminar program and continuing her German language study at the Goethe Institut in Munich in 1998, she returned to the States profoundly inspired. Her vision changed in 1999, when every window became a kaleidoscope. She couldn't shake the pressing sense that her education – and more importantly, her way of seeing – was incomplete: "I knew then and still know there's more to me, more to you, more to anyone than what's readable on the surface," she states. Walking the streets of Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam or London, the restless Corson found herself peering inquisitively into shops and restaurants, less interested in catching her own reflection than the fragments of people, buildings, cars, and signs that converged in each pane of glass.Soon, Corson added another prism to these storefront cityscapes: a camera lens, with its own filters of glass and mirror, seemed an apt medium through which to pass her ephemeral visions. Pictures are, as Corson succinctly puts it, "the equivalent of a core sample," where, "layers of different materials, thoughts and beliefs coexist, compressed and presented as one unit." Yet Corson's imagery is more mystical than scientific, or even journalistic. Nothing is presented as fact, but as in transcendental images like Buddha at Bill Hallman and Just Rosy on the Upper East Side, a little philosophy shines. Corson works as an Associate Director of the Office of Advising at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. She performs in downtown theatrical productions in New York City. |
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