{"id":11,"date":"2013-06-18T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jill.wampa.net\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:55:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill O\u2019Brien is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas and Tarrant County College. In 2002, she received her B.A. in English &amp; Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and her M.F.A. in Ceramics at the University of North Texas in 2006.\u00a0\u00a0Jill collects and creates nostalgic objects.\u00a0 Having cultivated a unified aesthetic, she and artist\u00a0<a title=\"Trish A. Igo\" href=\"http:\/\/trish.wampa.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trish Igo<\/a> \u00a0have worked collaboratively since 2001 to nurture an Imaginarium of taxidermy, photography, sculpture, and found objects that represent a shared ideal past and future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-864 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-360x203.jpg\" alt=\"Trish Igo and Jill O'Brien, &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Starfish&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt; (detail), 2015\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-690x388.jpg 690w, https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/starfish_detail2_small-980x551.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trish Igo and Jill O&#8217;Brien, <b><i>Starfish<\/i><\/b> <em>(detail)<\/em>, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Animal philosophies are rife with contradictions brought about by our<\/em><br \/>\n<em> childhood idolatry of animals and our societal use and slaughter of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>them. \u00a0Commixing these extremes, Trish Igo and Jill O&#8217;Brien create<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a dreamlike expos\u00e9 of our haunted faunal relationships. Igo and<\/em><br \/>\n<em> O&#8217;Brien work collaboratively in mixed media to compose vignettes with<\/em><br \/>\n<em>coveted objects and creatures to construct situations that provoke<\/em><br \/>\n<em> reflection on the subjective and selective ways that people view<\/em><br \/>\n<em> animals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/trishandjill.com\/\">trishandjill.com<\/a> for highlights of our collaborative works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill O\u2019Brien is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas and Tarrant County College. In 2002, she received her B.A. in English &amp; Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and her M.F.A. in Ceramics at the University of North Texas in 2006.\u00a0\u00a0Jill collects and creates nostalgic objects.\u00a0 Having cultivated a unified aesthetic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}