Jilaine Jones is primarily a sculptor. At the MacDowell this summer her project has incorporated the experience within the natural environment of the woods as subject matter, using mixed materials including steel, wire, and castings of clay forms, as well as working two dimensionally in ink, charcoal, and collage. She was most currently represented in the 2013 deCordova Museum Biennial. Other elected exhibitions include: solo exhibition at New York Studio School (2008); “Recent Modernist Sculpture,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (2005); solo exhibition at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York (2001); and “Art Triangle Barcelona,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain (1987). Jones received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2012, and the Fellowship for Sculpture from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 1997. She was educated at the New York State College of Ceramics (1978-79), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1979-83), and the New York Studio School (1997-99). Jones is based in New Haven, CT and teaches at Western Connecticut State University and the New York Studio School.
Jilaine Jones
Studios
Heinz
Jilaine Jones worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…