NEU : Jill Greenberg, photographer, Hollywood; solo shows in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Toronto plus 'Horses' book release announcement

Jill Greenberg is an internationally renowned artist and photographer. Her images are instantly recognizable thanks to her personally executed post production and her mastery of studio lighting.

Her background in illustration and painting is evident in her work, and her background in semiotics and art history is evident in the subject matter she explores in her personal work. Her personal work is exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums and her iconic commissioned work catches the eye on billboards and magazine covers.

Jill’s two current series: ‘Glass Ceiling’ (2008-2011) and ‘Horses’ (2010-2011), are part of a travelling show that will next be seen in Atlanta at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery opening October 28th, 2011. The exhibition will then travel to O’born Contemporary Gallery in Toronto in April 2012.

Jill continues to be represented by Clamp Art in New York and has recently signed with a new gallery in Los Angeles, the Katherine Cone Gallery, where she will be exhibiting an ongoing series of aggressive and dystopian figure studies in January 2012. Sounds promising – we are looking forward to reporting on it on GoSee.

The ‘Glass Ceiling’ series, which features the unique floating aqualillies marks a return to the ‘80s feminist theory that inspired her senior thesis, ‘The Female Object’ as an art student at RISD in the ‘80s : ‘The disciplinary project of femininity’ and the predetermined failure of all women who attempt to ‘succeed’ at it.

Jill’s discovery of the similarities in the treatment of women to horses is evident in the two attached series. She relates medieval devices to silence women, called ‘scold’s bridles’, and horse paraphernalia such as bridles and bits, the latter specifically, deemed to be a necessary evil in the control of horses’ usefulness, to contemporary confinements of corsets, nail polish and high heel shoes that women fetishize, despite their painfulness and impracticality.

Her new coffee table sized monograph HORSES with studio studies of horses and still lifes of bits, will be released in late 2012 by Rizzoli. This follows her previous very successful two monographs, ‘Monkey Portraits’ and ‘Bear Portraits’ which were published by Little, Brown in 2006 and 2008 respectively.