* 1954 in Summit, NJ (US), lives and works in New York City, NY (US)

Much of my work examines fundamental themes of space and time. My drawings explore temporal and structural development through an organic process using technological information. Through a predetermined process based on scientific information and natural phenomena, the work arrives at a contemplative ending.

The didactic nature of data does not interest me as much as its persuasive aloofness and the fact that it provides a structure that allows for less decision-making on my part and more freedom in making a drawing. The data simply provides an over-arching pattern of something that I understand to be true but cannot see with my eyes. I download information from the Internet about tides and currents that interest me and use these numbers to determine sequences of lines, which are hand-drawn in pigmented ink. A scientist would probably use this information to prove something. As an artist, I am not so interested in a fixed conclusion but in a series of questions that open up another series of questions.

The drawings in the Schroth Collection are primarily tide drawings and are part of an ongoing series of drawings, begun in 2002, that describe and pattern the movement of water on the planet. The project has of late focused on ever-increasing disturbances to natural patterns resulting from extreme weather such as hurricanes and tsunamis. 

Jill Baroff, 2017