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Karen Jacobs

Statement

My paintings are a process of exploration. There are no messages or hidden agendas, other than to reveal the discoveries made during my investigations. Perhaps I do take cues from familiar surroundings and perhaps the steamy southern summers, rich patinas of aged surfaces and the mystery of moss-draped wetlands do find their way into my work. But not as images, not obviously and certainly not intentionally.

There is, of course, the seed of an idea or a bit of a plan when I begin, but I am quickly directed by the work, answering the needs, sorting the puzzles and discovering solutions. I work with layers of thick and thin color, washed or scumbled over a textured surface. Traces are left by assorted mark makers, lines are straight, curved or gestural, surfaces are wiped, dripped and spattered; all addingto an eventual sense of accumulation and the essence of time.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005, 2003 - Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998 - Wyndy Morehead Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1998 - Lagerquist Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997, 96 - Renaissance Gallery, Northport, AL
1994 - Mississippi Gulf Coast College, Gautier, MS
1994 - Patio Gallery, Covington, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002 - Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002 - 'New Blood', Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN
2002 - Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2001 - 'Time and Space', Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 - 'Of Time and Timelessness', Wyndy Morehead Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
2000, 1999 - WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI
1998 - 50th Aniversary, Mississippi Art Colony Retrospective, Lauren Rodgers Museum, MS
1995 - 'Knot Just Grass, A Review of Three Series', William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS
1994 - American Watercolor Society, 142nd Annual Knickerbocker Club, New York, NY

Honors and Awards

Alabama Arts Council Grant for the Governor's Arts Awards
National Galleries Endowment Award, 73rd National Watercolor Society Exhibition
First Place, 23rd Louisiana Watercolor Society International Exhibition

Collections

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Alabama Governor & Mrs. Fob James
Winton Blount Southern Regional Collection, AL
Sak's Fifth Avenue, Houston, TX
Hotel Parc St. Charles, New Orleans, LA
General Consul of Italy, New Orleans, LA
City of New Orleans Parkway & Park Commission, New Orleans, LA
AmSouth Bank, Montgomery, AL
Southeastern Conference Headquarters, Birmingham, AL
Deposit Guaranty National Bank of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
Trustmark Bank, Meridian, MS and McComb, MS
Bradley Arant Collection, Birmingham, AL
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, GA

Related Education

Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD