Jillian Verzino is an Italian American artist whose curiosity in painting is as charged by her profession as an organic vegetable farmer as it is by her Roman Catholic upbringing. The decorative and coordinated compositions filled by vegetative, floral forms are both erotic and ordered. Her decorative compositions filled with vegetative and floral labyrinths are both erotic and ordered. Pulsing, swollen, fruit-like forms entangled with angular, harder, unbending boundaries suggest what remains on the artist’s mind while both painting and farming - that everything earthly boils down to procreation and death. Her work is heavily informed by the marble inlay work of Catholic churches throughout Italy and, more broadly, religious art and pre history.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Hungry Reaper Farm, Morris, CT, BAD LIGHTING
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY, SOFTER THAN STONE
2025 Coltsfoot Valley Farm, Cornwall, CT, VEGLIA - A PERFORMANCE ART DINNER
2022 Volume II, New Haven, CT, RESONANCE FOR A QUIET BODY
2016 Ildiko Butler Gallery, New York, NY, SOVEREIGNTY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA, PASS THE BUTTER
2024 Ildiko Butler Gallery, New York, NY, AMARCORD
2023 Hungry Reaper Farm, Morris, CT, BAD LIGHTING
2022 O'Flaherty's, New York, NY, THE PATRIOT
2022 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, MIXMASTER
2019 Dollhouse, Philadelphia, PA, DOLLHOUSE
2018 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, MIXMASTER
2016 Schumacher Gallery, Middlebury, CT, FACULTY EXHIBITION
2016 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, MIXMASTER
2015 Lipani Gallery, New York, NY, TIME IS UP!
INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS
Upper level art instructor, Westover School, Middlebury, CT, 2016-2017
Painting instructor, Westover Summer Session, Middlebury, CT, 2014, 2015
EDUCATION
2012-2016 Dual BA Visual Arts and Environmental Policy, Fordham University