Jimbo Blachly lives in New York City. His installations, performances, drawings and paintings have been exhibited at the Drawing Center, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, The SculptureCenter, Planthouse Gallery in N.Y.C.; and Furnace-art on Paper, Falls Village Connecticut. No. 81, a limited-edition book of Blachly drawings was published in 2021. Between 2004 and 2014 he was co-editor of The Chadwick Family Papers with the poet Lytle Shaw. They presented their work in exhibitions at ICA and Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia; Wavehill in the Bronx; N.Y. P.S.1 MOMA; Museum of Art and Design, NY; MCA, Denver; The Tate Gallery, London, Kunsthall KadE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, EV+A Limerick, Ireland; and Winkleman Gallery in NYC.

Drawing in part on enlightenment and romantic models of the artist as wandering witness to the world’s physical mysteries, my practice has involved working outside in the parks where I live in Manhattan, and in the mountains and forests of New England. Through a combination of observation, wandering, drawing and writing etc., I try to make works that at once evoke the specific space of a particular hill-hollow or group of trees and an ambient abstraction from a passage of light in recalled terrain.

Jimbo says: “I’m eager to see how my practice gets impacted by the landscape of Scotland, a country I have long wanted to visit. Boswell and Johnson’s 1740s descriptions of the highlands and west coast islands will serve as inaccurate sign posts during my brief tour. At Cove Park, then, I will make drawings and photographs on the grounds and surrounding area in preparation for an upcoming exhibition.”

Image provided by the artist.