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Bill Jacobson
Some Planes
October 30- December 24, 2008
Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our sixth exhibition of photographs
by Bill Jacobson. Entitled Some Planes, the main body of the exhibition
consists of a series of seven large vertically oriented desert landscapes
and a related group of smaller images from the earlier project A Series
of Human Decisions.
Between 1989 and 2002, Jacobson used his signature out-of-focus style
as a reflection of collective dreams and memory, suggesting loss and the
passage of time. More recently, he has used sharp focus to explore what
it means to inhabit the physical, man-made world culminating in a body
of work entitled A Series of Human Decisions. From 2002-2006,
Jacobson photographed a variety of interior and exterior architectural
spaces, all of which allude to the idea that, unless we are in natural
settings, we live in relation to man made created spaces. Such spaces
suggest that one “sees pictures”—that everyday objects exist in our minds
as images. Six works from this series will be presented on the gallery’s
entry wall.
While making such photographs, Jacobson found himself persistently drawn
to the lines that separate planes in space. Such a “visual line,” he notes,
“marks the edge of a picture frame against the wall; the place where wall
meets ceiling, or where roof meets sky”. Such planar edges evoked for
Jacobson works by Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, and Agnes Martin, all
of whom have been influences.
This interest in planes and edges led Jacobson to travel repeatedly over
the past two years to American deserts in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
His purpose was “not to make desert pictures in any traditional sense,
but to further explore one more way in which planes join—this time on
a vast scale.” Most of these works are minimal, bordering on the abstract,
and allude to the vagaries of perception when confronted by such pared-down
visual information. While the desert photographs are crisp and sharp,
the palette is delicate and ethereal. In that sense this body of work
circles back to Jacobson’s earlier soft-focus explorations. These are
quiet pictures of vast spaces that lack any obvious reference to human
endeavor or presence. As such, they summon a distinctly human interior-space,
the “intimate immensity” identified by the French theorist of intimate
interiority, Gaston Bachelard.
Bill Jacobson’s photographs are in the collections of numerous museums
including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney
Musuem , SFMoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Victoria and
Albert Museum. His work currently figures in the group exhibition, Darkside,
at the Fotomusem Winterthur, and in January will be the subject of a solo
exhibition at Langhans Galerie in Prague. A book of A Series of Human
Decisions will be published next spring by Decode Books in Seattle.
Reviews:
Time
Out New York
The
New Yorker
BILL JACOBSON
SOME PLANES
OCTOBER 30- DECEMBER 24, 2008
Entrance:
A Series of Human Decisions #1710, 2005
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
A Series of Human Decisions #2137, 2006
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
A Series of Human Decisions #1112, 2004
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
A Series of Human Decisions #2156, 2006
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
A Series of Human Decisions #1941, 2005
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
A Series of Human Decisions #1956, 2005
chromogenic print
mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum
14 1/2 x 14”
edition of 5
East wall:
Some Planes #436, 2007
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
North wall:
Some Planes #115, 2007
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
Some Planes #204, 2007
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
Some Planes #601, 2008
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
West wall:
Some Planes #539, 2008
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
South wall:
Some Planes #208, 2007
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
$8500
Some Planes #410, 2007
pigment print
mounted on museum board
49 1/2 x 36"
edition of 9
A Series of Human Decisions are also available in 30 x 28”, editions of
5.
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A Series of Human Decisions (#1710)
A Series of Human Decisions (#2137)
A Series of Human Decisions (#1112)
A Series of Human Decisions (#2156)
A Series of Human Decisions (#1941)
A Series of Human Decisions (#1956)
Some Planes #436
Some Planes #115
Some Planes #204
Some Planes #601
Some Planes #539
Some Planes #208
Some Planes #410
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