Jacob received his MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art in 2019 and his BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014. Jacob is also Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives and works in Richmond, VA. He creates paintings that depict figures as geological and psychological extensions of the landscape. His paintings depict hermits, wanderers, vagrants — a visual trope of a performative body that is sensitive to the elements.
“Through narrative frameworks,” says Jacob, “I explore folk stories, fantasy, folkloric geographies, and a discourse about representation. Folklore is a register for renegotiating the nature of perception, sacrificing realism to gain a new truth. The denaturalization of a subject through the carnivalesque reveals the underbelly of sensation and perception. I use specific painting techniques to challenge a fixed perception of self, queerness, landscape, and desire. How does the impulsive private self, in a space that is richly and strangely portrayed, reshape our understanding of the public persona? There is a constant intermediate dance between myth and reality, an experimentation with romance, all portrayed against a backdrop of a dangerously seductive landscape on its last legs.”
In the last week of July, Jacob's work will be shown in A Lab.
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