Artist Information:
Peter Jacobs
Montclair, NJ
United States
Member Since: Aug 2000
 send an email
|
|
Artist Statement:
The media provides a
depository of that which is
popular, historic, modern,
post modern, relevant, and
irrelevant to culture and
society. Collaging pieces of
media and liberating them from
their original environments
and intents to create new
formal and psychological ones
is my process in thought and
execution. I have been a media
artist for almost twenty
years. I started as an urban
landscape and studio
assemblage photographer where
my interest lay in flattening
very densely layered images.
Photography was a truthful act
which could be framed and lit
to do perceptual tricks.
However, photography as a
medium for me, had its
limitations. I wanted to have
more control in how I
structured my work and more
improvisation in where it
went. Collage became the most
coherent and natural medium
for me to formalize my vision.
I think about weathered
billboards which tell a visual
history layered in disparate
images. The visual fabric of
urban landscapes is woven in a
continuous pattern of isolated
images creating one whole. The
simultaneous perception our
minds have in accumulating and
organizing the isolated sparks
of these moments combine to
form my collages. I reproduce,
alter, displace and layer
images, colors & textures
which are ...
Further Information
| |
Artist Exhibitions:
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM:
Montclair, NJ
"Face To Face" An
Installations of 27 Large
scale Mixed Media Portraits.
February 23 - April 28 2002
Johnson and Johnson Corporate
Gallery: New Brunswick, NJ
Recent Work
December 16 -January 13
2003...
Further Information
|
|
|
|
Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Collections:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Commissions:
Coming Soon!
|
|
|
Peter Jacobs's Free Artist Portfolio
| Welcome to Peter Jacobs's Portfolio. Browse Jacobs's body of work: The media provides a depository of that which is popular, historic, modern, post modern, relevant, and irrelevant to culture and society. Collaging pieces of media and liberating them from their original environments and intents to create new formal and psychological ones is my process in thought and execution. I have been a media artist for almost twenty years. I started as an urban landscape and studio assemblage photographer where my interest lay in flattening very densely layered images. Photography was a truthful act which could be framed and lit to do perceptual tricks. However, photography as a medium for me, ... |
|
|
|
