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Paul Jacobsen: Spatial Vision

Past exhibition
3 Noviembre - 16 Diciembre 2023
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Detail, The Invention of Nature (with Caspar David Friedrich), 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 33 in. (101. 6 x 83.8 cm)
Detail, The Invention of Nature (with Caspar David Friedrich), 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 33 in. (101. 6 x 83.8 cm)
At the conceptual core of the exhibition is a study of light. Light makes vision possible, revealing the material reality of our surroundings and enabling our perception. A visible form of energy that shapes our reality while also functioning as a metaphor for understanding, revelation, and the true nature of things.

David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce Spatial Vision, by New York-based artist Paul Jacobsen. This show builds on two distinct art movements: Romanticism and Minimalism, and is soaked in deep purples, indigos, violets, and oranges, and studded with his signature lens flares. Jacobsen’s adept technical skills shine in his trompe l’oeil depictions of great expanses within humble constraints. Both prismatic and monochrome, these dualities encompass the interactions of the world outside and the one within. While the reframing of works made in the middle of the industrial revolution evokes the specter of all that has come since. Given this perspective across time the viewer is invited to trace the shape of the sublime as it morphs into the climate chaos raging against the ravages of an thoroughly industrialized world.

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Obras
  • Paul Jacobsen, Spatial Vision (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023
    Paul Jacobsen, Spatial Vision (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023
  • Paul Jacobsen, View (with Thomas Cole), 2023
    Paul Jacobsen, View (with Thomas Cole), 2023
  • Paul Jacobsen, View II (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023
    Paul Jacobsen, View II (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023
  • Paul Jacobsen, View (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023

    Paul Jacobsen, View (with Albert Bierstadt), 2023

  • Paul Jacobsen, Spirit Level II, 2023

    Paul Jacobsen, Spirit Level II, 2023

  • Paul Jacobsen, Light Lines, 2023

    Paul Jacobsen, Light Lines, 2023

  • Paul Jacobsen, Iceberg (with Friedrich Church), 2023
    Paul Jacobsen, Iceberg (with Friedrich Church), 2023
  • Paul Jacobsen, The Invention of Nature (with Caspar David Friedrich), 2023
    Paul Jacobsen, The Invention of Nature (with Caspar David Friedrich), 2023
Installation Views
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install2 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install3 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install4 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install5 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install6 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install7 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install1 Web
  • Jacobsen Spatialvision Install8 Web
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