Crisp-Ellert Art Museum is pleased to announce Miami-based Jillian Mayer’s forthcoming exhibition New Sincerity 2.0. Mayer’s latest sculptures utilize materials such as glass, metal, and other industrial materials, building on previous bodies of work that explore myriad themes, including our relationship to technology and the digital world, environmental collapse, and prepper subcultures. The artist will give a walkthrough of the exhibition on Tuesday, January 18 at 5 PM, followed by an opening reception until 7 PM.

Working across disciplines that include film, video, sculpture, painting, and performance, Mayer is well known for tongue-in-cheek works that explore the complicated nature of our relationship to technology. Mayer’s work isn’t a denunciation of technology but is regularly presented as a satirical value proposition to provoke conversation about identity, authenticity, and sincerity regarding our often-perverse engagement with the digital landscape, or what our relationship to the actual landscape might resemble in the absence of a techno-world.

Jillian Mayer is an artist and filmmaker based in Miami, Florida. She has held solo exhibitions including Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (2019), Kunst Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (2019), University of Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo NY (2018), Tufts University, Boston, MA (2018); Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2016); LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT (2014); and David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL (2011 & 2016). She has exhibited, screened films, and performed at  MoMA PS1 (2017); MoMA (2013); the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (2013); the Bass Museum of Art, North Miami, FL (2012); the Guggenheim Museum (2010); and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec as a part of the Montréal Biennial (2014).

Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Rottenberg Film Fest, and the New York Film Festival. She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontiers Lab and New Narratives on Climate Change Lab.

This program is supported by a grant from the Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.