Jill Turner |  Video Artist
Jill Turner is a video performance artist working out of Amherst, Massachusetts

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About Jill Turner

Jill Turner, 53, of Amherst (Massachusetts), makes short private performances that have the look of a thing that she never intended to be seen or that escaped secrecy by leaping onto the screen and into the public realm. In truth, she has very carefully composed performed, recorded, edited, and revised over several years. Moving along with an evolving technology, she originally recorded to VHS and transferred to DVD that she has taken into Final Cut. She presents them as a looped set of shorts that “… explore the paradox of middle-age, especially for women.”
The astonishing thing is that with austere economy she gives the surface of the screen a pleasing appearance as she jaunts through harsh themes that involve reflection on a mother’s suicide, a working-class woman’s experience with group therapy, an aborted idea of pregnancy that never happened...Introspective artwork on the edge.
Michael Tillyer - APE Gallery and Anchor House for Artists