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In this work, the artist references the Greek myth that describes a painting competition between Zuexis and Parrhasius. Parrhasius won, not because of his superior technical skill, but because he portrayed a subject so ordinary that it normally escaped attention.
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① Artwork:

Cite Lines

In this work, the artist references the Greek myth that describes a painting competition between Zuexis and Parrhasius. Parrhasius won, not because of his superior technical skill, but because he portrayed a subject so ordinary that it escaped attention. In this image, the artist merges both painters’ strategies through the depiction of an unremarkable cardboard box and the technical challenge offered by the repeating orbs of transparent grapes accented with dew.

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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19 inches
19 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:
Cite Lines, 2022
Gouache and watercolor pencil on paper
19.0 × 19.0 inches /