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Some found objects find their way into a piece and others into the trash; depending on how long I’ve been staring at them. Gill creates patterns not only of great beauty but also year-by-year records of the life and times of fallen or damaged logs. I needed a drawing space separate from my sculpting space so I designed a drawing studio upstairs and the sculpture studio on the ground floor.

You’ll never know what you’re missing if you don’t find some way to get inside and look’ and that brought him closer to the gentle giants we live among. Like a fingerprint, each impression becomes individual, revealing a personality, a sensitivity to the skin. Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs. It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred. An exhibition by the same name, composed of 30 of Gill's prints, was displayed at the Chicago Botanic Garden in early 2013.In 1984 he graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, [1] with a focus on glassblowing. I wasn’t to far from where I grew up and there was lots of space where I could continue my studio work. Earlier stints include the American Film Institute, Clinton-Gore White House, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Bryan Nash Gill (November 3, 1961 – May 17, 2013) was an American artist who worked primarily with wood, in the form of relief prints and sculptures.

Gill's work has been displayed at the New Britain Museum of American Art and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and he was commissioned to create installations for Expo 2005 in Japan and the World Financial Center in New York. He has shown his sculpture, drawings and installations at many exhibitions and galleries across the United States. BNG: Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate. He was a fellow of the California Arts Council and twice received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.Bryan Nash Gill was born and raised in the same rural, northwestern corner of Connecticut where he works as an artist today. Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate. I am often on the look-out for notecards that don't fall into any of the medium's typical expectations.

When printing with many colors, viscosity, opacity, and translucency are very important and I sometime feel like a mad scientist.He created prints from a large variety of trees, of which the oldest was a fallen 200-year-old chestnut tree once planted by Frederick Law Olmsted.