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KATHRYN
JACOBI: ORGANIC FRACTILES
“I
saw a friend’s first drawings on scratchboard. I was immediately intrigued.
Drawing with an etching needle or special sharp, spade-shaped nib to scratch
white lines through a prepared ink surface over a clay ground, I found a
medium that was highly satisfying. It gave me the advantage of a full range
of tonality between dark and light values, while still using a tool that felt
comfortable and totally natural.
In
these drawings, I can move the tool over the surface just a small distance,
with the movement of my hand anchored in one place by my wrist. I move the
stylus in short, parallel lines, which usually forms a curved plane. At the
end of each series of strokes, I move my hand and continue, building up the
volumes and directions slowly, deliberately, and yet without a preconceived
plan of how the drawing will emerge. I find this practice exciting in its
abstraction, whereas my other modalities of work are almost always figurative
and determined. These abstractions have a definite pattern of emergence. The
forms are almost always organic, and mimic the process of creating fractals
on a computer. Each form becomes a variable that is added to and developed to
become part of a much more complex whole.”
Kathryn
Jacobi is a classically trained contemporary realist painter, printmaker, and
photographer who has been exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the
United States, Canada, and Europe.
Kathryn
was born in Manhattan, New York. She attended UCLA, UC Berkeley, and
California State University Northridge, where she received her BA and her MA.
Kathryn presently lives in Santa Monica and has a studio in Los Angeles.
Exhibition Details
See
the online exhibition at Demossa
Gallery
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