Jillian Conrad

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Corse
2025
lead sheet, wood, graphite, and embossing powder
7 1/2 x 67 1/2 x 27 inches

*A 3D frottage drawing, Corse was made by pressing thin sheets of lead into the bark of different trees, then gently pulling the metal away. The impressions of the bark remain embedded in the material, wrapping along the edge of the gallery where the wall meets the floor. The piece functions as a three-dimensional frottage drawing—translating a tree’s surface into a material record. The title is a 13th-century word meaning both “a dead body” and “a living body,” and later, “the main part of anything.”


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