From Basket Books & Art:

"In 40 Winks, a site-specific sculptural installation by Jillian Conrad, nylon string and brass rods held in suspension conjure an ephemeral architecture, extending Conrad’s exploration of the unseen.

Jillian Conrad’s artistic practice addresses themes of materiality and intangibility. Her sculptures and works on paper look to landscape and the details of the physical world as thresholds that connect the human and the universal, the visible and the invisible. Her work has been exhibited at and supported by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bronx Museum, Smackmellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Core Program (at the MFAH, Houston) and Artadia. Recent solo exhibitions include The Earth as Air, Un Lieu Une Oeuvre, Ménerbes, France (2023), Hydras, BioScience Research Center, Rice University, Houston, TX (2022), and Airspace, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX (2019). Conrad’s work has been reviewed and discussed in numerous publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Art Lies, and the New York Times. She is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Sculpture Department at the University of Houston. A recent recipient of a Fullbright Fellowship, Conrad will, in the fall of 2024, travel to Cardiff University in Wales where she’ll be making drawings and sculptures inspired by research and encounters with the regions holy wells. "