Jill Flyer

I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, but moved to Mexico in 2003. I had been vactioning in Mexico for some time and although I love Chicago, there was so much more interesting to me to photograph in Mexico than in the flat lands and skyscrapers of Chicago.

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Although my father started to teach me how to draw when I was 5, it was not until I got my first real camera that I knew I had found my art. I shot millions of photos. I was learning what makes a good photo and what doesn’t. I studied photo books, magazines and exhibits and critiqued what I saw, because studying other people’s work helps you decide what kind of photographer you want to be. I spent endless hours in my home darkroom and then 5 years at the Evanston Art Center near Chicago, studying advanced darkroom techniques, some of which I still use in digital photography.

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Using a film camera I learned to SEE in black and white, but when I moved to the Ajijic/Lake Chapala area in 2003 it was easy to be dazzled by color in Mexico. In 2007, as darkroom supplies became difficult to get, I started using a digital camera. I began to explore the use of color using Photoshop to...

* B.A., M.A. French Literature, University of Illinois
* Nearly completed Masters of Urban Planning, UICC
* Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1998-2003, Advanced Darkroom Printing Techniques

JILL S. FLYER
Most Notable Accomplishments


• July 2001 - ARC Gallery Mixed Media Show, Chicago, IL

• July 2002, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences, Third National Juried Competition,
selected by Maria Christina Villasenor, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY.

• December, 2002, Di Paolo Gallery, Exhibit of 5 Women Photographers, Ajijic, Mx

• July 2002, Exhibit of women photographers and artists, Di Paola Gallery, Ajijic, Mx

• March 2003, Nicole Gallery, Group Show, "A Celebration of Women’s Art", Chicago, IL

• October 2003, Di Paola Gallery, Solo Exhibit, Ajijic, Mx

• February 2005, Solo Exhibit, The Gathering Place, Ajijic, Mx

• Fall 2005 and again in Fall 2010, Inclusion in El Libro-Agenda Fotografica, (issues 2006 & 2011) Rendija Taller, Guadalajara, Mx

• January 2006, Inclusion in exhibit of photography from Jalisco (curated by the Rendija) in Los Angeles, CA

• March 2007, Exhibitor in Non Representational Art Show, Centro Cultural, Chapala, Mx

• October 2007, Dual exhibit, Day of the Dead theme, Centro Cultural de Ajijic, Mx

• February 2008, Center Spread in Lake Chapala Review on my life and photography, Ajijic, Mx

• March, 2009, Dual photo exhibit, Ima...