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Bill Jacobson
Into the
Loving Nowhere (1989 till now)
October 20-December 10, 2011
Julie
Saul Gallery is pleased to present a selective survey of work from the past 22
years by New York based artist Bill Jacobson. Jacobson first showed at the gallery
in 1994, and this will be our eighth solo exhibition. The title is adapted from
an essay by Eugenia Parry in Jacobson’s 2005 monograph of color street and landscape
work.
The earliest series represented are the Interim Landscapes
(1989) and Interim Portraits (1992-1993), that together defined Jacobson’s
signature defocused style for over a decade. The Interim Portraits were
made in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and the blurry images of men evoke the painful
sense of collective loss that characterized the period. Unlike the autobiographical
work of Mark Morrisroe and David Wojnarowicz, Jacobson’s work has tended towards
the metaphoric and universal in its expression of loss.
Although his palette
subsequently went considerably darker, this sensibility continued in the Songs
of Sentient Beings (1994-1995) and Thought Series (1996-1998). Since
2003 he has worked with a variety of themes, in color and in focus, all the while
retaining his meditation on the human passage through the world. A Series of
Human Decisions (2005-2009) depicts a wide range of intimate, focused places
from the real world, emphasizing the complexities of spaces and objects that people
both create and encounter on a daily basis. The geometry found in these is echoed
in Some Planes, a series of desert landscapes from 2007-2008.
Most
recently, Jacobson has been exploring a new body of work titled Place (Series).
They are minimal still-lives, and are the result of placing rectangles of various
sizes in a variety of both man-made and natural settings. Implied are notions
of the infinite and the play between ‘real’ and ‘abstract’, echoing the very white
and very dark portraits first began twenty years ago.
Jacobson has exhibited
widely throughout the US and Europe for over twenty five years, most recently
in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National
Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and travelling this fall to the Brooklyn Museum.
Earlier this year he was included in Unsharf. After Gerhard Richter at the Hamburger
Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. Three monographs have been published on Jacobson,
and they will be available at the gallery during the exhibition.
His work
is included in over twenty five museum collections, including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London.
BILL
JACOBSON
INTO THE LOVING NOWHERE (1989 TILL NOW)
OCTOBER 20-DECEMBER
10, 2011
Entrance:
Interim Portrait #378, 1992
chromogenic print
mounted on museum board
24 x 20”, 27 x 23” framed
ap1/3 from an edition
of 9
Main Gallery:
Untitled (Thought Series), 1995
gelatin sillver
print with vellum overlay
5 3/4 x 6 3/4”, 19 x 22” framed
edition 1/5
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Place (Series) #125, 2009
pigment print mounted on museum board and
sintra
28 x 22”, 38 x 31 1/2” framed
edition 2/7
Some Planes #601,
2007
pigment print mounted on museum board and sintra
49 1/2 x 36”, 52
x 40” framed
edition 2/9
Thought Series #2580, 1998
gelatin silver
print
24 x 20”, 26 x 22” framed
edition 8/9
Place Series (#552),
2011
pigment print mounted on museum board and sintra
28 x 22”, 38 x 32”
framed
edition 1/7
New Year’s Day #5074, 2003
chromogenic print
mounted on museum board and sintra
60 x 50”, 66 1/2 x 58 1/2” framed
edition
2/2
Thought Series #710, 1993-96
gelatin silver print 36 x 28", 38
x 31 1/2” framed
edition 3/7
Interim Figure #1031, 1994
gelatin
silver print mounted on museum board
8 x 10”, 16 1/2 x 20 1/2” framed
edition
2/9
Song of Sentient Beings #1583, 1995
gelatin silver print mounted
on museum board and sintra
50 x 40”, 50 1/2 x 42” framed
edition 2/3
project
room: Interim Landscape #134-14, 1989
gelatin silver print mounted on museum
board
30 x 30", 33 1/4 x 33 1/8” framed
edition 2/5
History Series
#3109, 1999
gelatin silver print mounted on museum board
24 x 20", 25
5/8 x 22” framed
edition 2/9 $
#3591, 2000
pigment print mounted
on museum board and sintra
30 x 36”, 40 3/4 x 46 3/4” framed
edition 6/7\
A
Series of Human Decisions #1747, 2005
pigment print
23 3/4 x 22 1/2",
30 x 29” framed
edition 1/5
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Interim
Portrait #378
Untitled
(Thought Series)
Place
(Series) #125
Some
Planes #601
Thought
Series #2580
Place
(Series) #522
New Year's Day #5074
Thought
Series #710
Interim
Figure #1031
Song
of Sentient Beings #1583
Interim
Landscape #134-14
History
Series #3109
#3591
A Series of Human Decisions #1747
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