Colter Jacobsen "Alone Co."
Jack Hanley
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The Jack Hanley Gallery presents Alone Co., a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based artist Colter Jacobsen. The show will include a number of new drawings, photographs, sculptures and a video, interspersed with discarded snapshots, newspaper obituary clippings and other ephemera.
Culled from his collection of abandoned photographs and other printed
matter, Jacobsen creates meticulously detailed, naturalistic pencil
drawings, which are produced as a kind of encounter with another
artist or artwork. Specific pieces in the exhibit reference the
Velasquez painting The Supper at Emmaus, while another grid painting
depicts every color mentioned in David Goodis Dark Passage. Jacobsen
will also display a book of photographs having to do with twos, called
Double You, and a grid of every page from Jean Genet's Querelle, with
blind contour drawings of a sailor couple. The overarching theme of
sight and blindness is apparent in each work, whether it be
Jacobsen s signature pencil drawings or the discarded ephemera he so
delicately preserved. As Kevin Killian writes, just as impressive as
Jacobsen s draftsmanship is his brilliant infusion of old-school,
Mission school, DIY junk assemblage with a sophisticated gay
semiotics.
Colter Jacobsen was born in 1975 in Ramona, California and currently
lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work has been shown in
museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe, with recent
exhibitions at Corvi-Mora, London, CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Art, San Francisco, and Murray Guy Gallery in New York
City.
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Schedule
from October 25, 2008 to November 22, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-10-25 from 18:00 to 21:00
With live musical performances.