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An Oeuf is an Oeuf
In this work, a small sheet of paper used to test swatches of watercolor and gouache reappears through a trompe l’oeil effect. Similar dabs of paint cluster around the edge, the real byproduct of making a painting about painting. The artist is interested in the qualitative difference between direct and simulated traces of her hand, especially in contrast with careful rendering. The contrast poses a question about style and whether it is the use of conventions or innate and unconscious.
Juliet Jacobson makes art about the act of looking and the experience of recognition. Her work draws on visual experience as conditioned by the history of visual images and literary invocations of art and representation, ranging from puns to mythology.
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③ Artist:
Juliet Jacobson makes art about the act of looking and the experience of recognition. Her work draws on visual experience as conditioned by the history of visual images and literary invocations of art and representation, ranging from puns to mythology.
Juliet Jacobson was born in 1977 in Puyallup, WA, and she currently resides in New York City and Cold Spring, NY. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and her MFA from New York University (2006).
Her recent exhibitions include Chromatic Vigils, The Sphinx Northeast, Hudson, New York (2021); Born to be Alive, Season, Seattle, Washington (2020); Emoji Show, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, New York (2018); and With All of Its Predicates (solo), Planthouse, New York, New York (2018).
Jacobson has also had her work featured in periodicals such as The New York Times (2018), Artforum (2015) and Art News (2015).
