Jill Ansell — Biography



1992 Outstanding Citizen Award, City L.A., Planned Parenthood Mural
1994 M.F.A. Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1996 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY
1998-2001 Artist-in-Residence, California Arts Council, California State Prisons
2002-present Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM

 

 The paintings of Jill Ansell draw heavily on modern art historical schools and images, especially surrealism, transforming them into powerful social and political statements rooted in contemporary feminist consciousness.

Ansell's paintings frequently reveal how social and political events are a metaphor for what takes place inside the minds of individual human beings. Her effective capacity to communicate this vision resonates with her audience, especially with women viewers for whom the personal/political nexus is also intuitively real.