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"Breath Circle #9 (Lotus Blossom) 'nam myoho renge kyo'"
2025
Pastel on Bhutan Mitsumata paper died with tea.
62 x 60.5 inches

While reading the Lotus Sutra I discovered the chant "Nam myoho renge kyo", which is Devotion to the Mystic Dharma of the Lotus Flower Sutra. While chanting I experienced my whole body as breath. I created this drawing while chanting. It took me most of last summer to make, then it was exhibited at Pie Projects, Santa Fe in May, 2026.

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"Breathing into the Moon for Enheduanna #23".
Watercolor, gouache, graphite on Bhutan Mitsumata paper, 10.5 x 10.5 inches.

Born in 2286 BC, Enheduanna was the entu priestess of the moon god Nanna in the Sumerian city-state of Ur. Sargon of Akkad, her father, the king of Akkad appointed Enheduanna to the position of priestess in Ur to consolidate power. Enheduanna is the first recorded author to sign her name to a text "Exaltation of Inanna", which relays her own tragic fate. She recounts how she was cast out of her temple, stripped of her priestly offices, and driven into the wilderness by a rebel named Lugal-ane. She cries out to the moon god Nanna for help, but upon receiving no answer, she directs her prayers directly to her personal god, Nanna's sister, Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of war, sex, paradox and transformation. Inanna complies. Lugal-ane is defeated. Enheduanna is restored to her position as priestess in Ur.

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We are delighted to congratulate Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan) as the 2026 recipient of the Barry Lopez Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (@barry_lopez_foundation).

Founded around Barry Lopez’s enduring question, “What is our response as a community of artists to the fate of the earth?”, the fellowship supports artists, composers, and writers whose work moves beyond documenting a threatened and changing planet to illuminate moments of beauty, inspiration, and connection to the land.

With support from the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment, O’Bryan will create two monumental desert frottages of Chupinas Mesa in northern New Mexico. Working directly with the landscape, she uses graphite to create rubbings of the earth beneath her paper, transforming geological time, erosion, and place into immersive drawings.

“Recording my interactions with the dirt and rock, sifting through the desert rubble, which is alive with activity, I lie down and let the rock hold me. Then I draw this holding, which I experience as a resonance. I am not just scratching on the surface, so to speak, the drawings retrieve the land’s depth by revealing crevasses formed by wind and rain over millennia.”
-Jill O’Bryan on her desert frottage process

Images:
©Jill O’Bryan, ‘nm.2.21,’ 2021, graphite on paper, 10 × 6 feet
©Jill O’Bryan, ‘nm.4.21,’ 2021, graphite on paper, 10 × 6 feet

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The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment launched three new programs this spring to mark our fifth anniversary. Today, we are celebrating Jill O’Bryan, who has been awarded our 2026 Visual Artist Fellowship to support the creation of two monumental “frottage” drawings of the northern New Mexico landscape:

“Recording my interactions with the dirt and rock, sifting through the desert rubble, which is alive with activity, I lie down and let the rock hold me. Then I draw this holding, which I experience as a resonance. I am not just scratching on the surface, so to speak, the drawings retrieve the land’s depth by revealing crevasses formed by wind and rain over millennia.”

When the foundation was established, Barry posed the question, “What is our response as a community of artists to the fate of the earth?” We are committed to supporting artists and writers whose work moves beyond documenting a threatened and ravaged planet to point us toward moments that reaffirm the beauty and inspiration to be found in the landscape. Collectively, their work will create a record of engagement with the planet and our response to this moment.

Learn more about the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment and our fellowship programs at the link on our bio.

1: Jill O’Bryan, New Mexico © Alison Sirico
2: nm.2.21
3: nm.4.21
4: nm.4.23

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"A New Breath" closing Saturday, June 6

1. "nm.4.6-10" (2010)
Graphite on paper. 80 x 80 inches.

2. "Mineral Painting: Black Tourmaline and Mica" (2025). Ground up black tourmaline and mica in watercolor medium on Bhuttan Mitsumata paper. 62 x 104 inches.

3. "Breath Circle #3" (2025)
Graphite on Bhutan Mitsumata paper with gold leaf thread and gold leaf.
10.5 x 10.5 inches.

4. "Breath Circle #10" (2025)
Graphite on Bhutan Mitsumata paper with gold leaf thread, gold leaf, cholla blossom petals. 16 x 16 inches.

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Final Week: "A New Breath" Jill O'Bryan
3 Ground Paintings (oil and ink on stretched canvas; each: 120 x 72 inches.

Thank you to everyone who has visited my exhibition! And thank you, thank you to Alina Borsa the lovely owner of Pie Projects Contemporary Art who curated the exhibition and designed the installation.

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Pie Projects Contemporary Art, Santa Fe.
"Jill O'Bryan: A New Breath" is up until June 6th.

Opening Image:
3 "Ground Pantings" (2025)
Each: ink and oil stick on canvas
Each: 120 x 72 inches

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ARTIST + WRITERS IN CONVERSATION 🗣️

In collaboration with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival (@sfinternationallitfest), join us at the gallery for a talk between artist Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan) with poet Rick Barot (@rickbarot1) and author Laura Paskus (@laurapaskus) about the unique ways in which art, nature, and poetry intersect.

🗓️ Thursday, May 14
⏰ 5 - 6pm
📍Pie Projects, 924B Shoofly Street, Santa Fe, NM

*This event is free admission with open seating, no rsvp required.

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I am delighted to be exhibiting at Pie Projects Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, with my new ground paintings and breath drawings. Curated by Alina Borsa, Director of Pie. Thank you Alina for your collaborative spirit, your vision, imagination, and the opportunity to exhibit artwork in your beautiful space. The preview and opening were wonderful events last weekend! Here are a few shots...

"Jill O'Bryan: A New Breath" is up until June 6th.

1. Jill O'Bryan, David Sheinbaum, and
Janet Russek in front of "Ground Pantings".

2. Toby Jurovics, Director of
The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art and Environment; Jill; Alina Borsa, Director, Pie Projects; Devendra Contractor, dnca architects, designed Pie Projects as well as the Vladem Contemporary Art Museum in Santa Fe (with Studio GP).

3. Devendra Contractor in front of "Ground Paintings".

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Happy Earth Day 🌎

Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan) gets about as close as you can- lying on the New Mexican desert floor and rubbing its surface directly onto paper for her desert frottage series.

Images:
1. © Jill O’Bryan, frottage drawing- photo: Alison Sirico.
2. © Jill O’Bryan, ‘Ground Painting,’ 2025, ink stick and oil on canvas, 120 x 72 in.
3. Jill O’Bryan, installation view, Texas State Galleries, museum at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

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Upcoming exhibition!!

"Jill O’Bryan: A New Breath"
May 2–June 6
opening: May 2, 4-6 pm
Pie Projects, Santa Fe

"Breath Circle 6"
Graphite, Gold Leaf, Gold Leaf Thread on Bhutan Mitsumata paper.
20 x 16 inches.

Constructing a drawing breath by breath, layering twenty inhales and exhales one over the next until they wear through an upper sheet of paper and transfer marks onto a sheet beneath where shadows of the breath marks abide on the right half of the circle. Sewn together with gold-leafed thread, the two halves form a circle.

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"Breathing into the Moon" (2023)
Each: 10.5 x 10.5 inches
Watercolor, acrylic, graphite, mixed media on Bhutan Mitsumata paper

Was thinking of the feminine in the moon and Enheduanna, Sumerian priestess of the Moon God Nanna, and poet (c. 2300 BC) in the Sumerian city of Ur. In Enheduanna's text "Exaltation of Innana" she declared herself: "I, Enheduanna..." and become the first named author in world literature.

A beautiful exhibition of work about Enheduanna was at the Morgan Library in 2023: "She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C."

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