Bill Jacobson "Some Planes & "A Series of Human Decisions"
Julie Saul Gallery
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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.
Jacobson travelled 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 "Some Planes" 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.
[Image: Bill Jacobson "A Series of Human Decisions #2137" (2006) chromogenic print mounted on non glare plexi and aluminum 14.5 x 14 in.]
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from October 30, 2008 to December 24, 2008