Lizzie Gill in "Looking for a Rising Star? Here Are 6 Artists Poised to Break Put After a Strong Showing at Armory Week 2022"

Why You Should Pay Attention: Two of the artist’s largest and most expensive works sold in the fair’s opening days. Gill makes striking mixed media still life works of urns and china decorated with image transfers of black-and-white images, like a newspaper photo of the moon landing. She fills the vessels with stylized red or white flowers, their petals embellished with marble dust emulsion Gill has piped onto the panel with a cake piper. This nod to feminine domesticity contrasts with the historic images she uses to decorate the breakable objects, depicting a fragile history. “It all started with my mom giving me a box of fine china,” the artist told Artnet News. “It’s inspired by reframing heirlooms and how they’re passed down in a matriarchy. This is my way of reconciling my duty to these objects.”