Jillian Mayer was born in and lives and works in Miami, FL and received her BFA from Florida International University in 2007. She has participated in exhibitions in the US and Europe. In 2010, the artist’s work was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. Jillian Mayer raises her artistic practice in the authenticity of a generation that came of age in the 1980s. Mayer calls upon drawing, photography, video, installation, and performance to play scenarios of apathy, dysfunction, and disappointment. Building philosophy into expectations of higher economics, instant gratification, and the short & sweet finesse of a television sitcom, Mayer critiques the conflict between her childhood optimism and the state of contemporary culture with an educated playfulness.
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