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Two aspects of the “face” are recurring themes in the artist’s practice. One is the threshold of the flat picture plane, which can only offer one face to the viewer, its own face. Another aspect is the face as a primary scene of human perception.
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① Artwork:

Flower Faced f-hole

Two aspects of the “face” are recurring themes in the artist’s practice. One is the threshold of the flat picture plane, which can only offer one face to the viewer, its own face. Another aspect is the face as a primary scene of human perception. The concept is rendered three times in this work on paper. The word “face” appears cut into the surface of a sheet of paper, depicted in its cast shadow, and portrayed through the two flowers that suggest eyes.

Juliet Jacobson makes art about the act of looking and the experience of recognition. Her work draws on visual experience as conditioned by the history of visual images and literary invocations of art and representation, ranging from puns to mythology.

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17.5 inches
17.5 inches

③ Artist:

Juliet Jacobson

Juliet Jacobson makes art about the act of looking and the experience of recognition. Her work draws on visual experience as conditioned by the history of visual images and literary invocations of art and representation, ranging from puns to mythology.

Juliet Jacobson was born in 1977 in Puyallup, WA, and she currently resides in New York City and Cold Spring, NY. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and her MFA from New York University (2006).

Her recent exhibitions include Chromatic Vigils, The Sphinx Northeast, Hudson, New York (2021); Born to be Alive, Season, Seattle, Washington (2020); Emoji Show, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, New York (2018); and With All of Its Predicates (solo), Planthouse, New York, New York (2018).

Jacobson has also had her work featured in periodicals such as The New York Times (2018), Artforum (2015) and Art News (2015).

Juliet Jacobson:
Flower Faced f-hole, 2022
Gouache, graphite and white watercolor pencil on paper
17.5 × 17.5 inches /