This exhibition is an installation of artwork by New Mexico and New York-based artist Jill O'Bryan. O'Bryan's works address connection, action, and time as processes of creation. The exhibition pairs O'Bryan's Ground Drawings and Breath Drawings, two separate but related bodies of work.

 The Ground Drawings (or "Frottages") are made on a mesa in New Mexico's high desert, where O'Bryan resides part of the year. The artist lies down on large sheets of paper and makes rubbings of the rocks beneath her. Rubbing graphite against the paper, an impression of the rock below forms. Her corporeal connection with the land is recorded along with the cracks and crevices formed by time. The result is a "landscape drawing" at once detailed and vast in scale. Each one renders an intricate impression not only of a moment within the rock's geologic formation, but also of the artist's singular interaction with the ground. The result is an ethereal cartography, charting the relatively narrow space that our human bodies occupy on this Earth.

O'Bryan's Breath Drawings also have a corporeal quality. They reference Tonglen breathing, a form of meditation found in Tibetan Buddhism. Over days, months, and sometimes years, O'Bryan archives time by counting and recording her breaths in hours-long drawing marathons. Her  record  keeping textures  the paper with each breath marked and layered upon its surface.

By recording her body's connection with its immediate surroundings-whether the atmosphere or the earth-O'Bryan brings the contemplative practice of being "present" to her artistic process. Each of the artworks on view points to the place of the artist's body at a particular moment in time. Together, the works articulate the myriad interconnections formed through action: The outward act of taking record coincides with the artist's own internal experience of expansion.

Jill O'Bryan has exhibited widely, most recently at Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York and Cologne; the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, NM. O'Bryan has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a PhD from New York University.