Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Before she began to use light as a medium, Jill Mulholland, a lecturer in architecture at Texas A&M, crafted art out of the mundane.
“I was interested in the forms of everyday things,” she said. She found art applications in airplane propeller and boomerang bases, torpedo-shaped hair dryers, latticework in a space heater, magazine racks and bowling balls.
Here artwork was recent featured at Gallery 979 in downtown Bryan.
“I found all of these objects beautiful and have tried to honor them in some way; with light, with high-end automotive car paints, with neon, or with colorful acrylic stacking,” she said. “All of them are prototypes, one of a kind, experimental explorations; they are all imperfect in one or more ways, and show signs of age and wear.”
Mulholland now concentrates on working with light as a medium. She donated one of her recent pieces, a 75-feet long by 22-feet high light-activated spiral mural, to the gallery.
“You need a high-powered flashlight to activate it,” said Mulholland about the piece, which hangs on the side of the gallery between 26th Street and William J. Bryan Parkway.
- Posted: June 30, 2009 -
