Julia Jacobson
Julia Jacobson is an emerging artist of originality and vision who is dealing directly with the issue of environmental sustainability. Her sculpture reflects the spontaneity and fluidity of her approach to life. While always studying art in school, she ended up working in the high tech field after college. Downsizing of the industry allowed her to follow the real love of her life and return to San Jose State University where she earned an MFA in Spatial Arts. She has been making sculpture ever since.
The form of Jacobson's work emerges from process and intuition, and the challenge of making a statement about the environment and our physical relationship to nature. The materials stem from an interest in creating new context for industrial waste by altering it. She starts with polystyrene foam blocks, the lightweight blocks that are used in packaging and need to be recycled because they will never break down. Casting these forms proceeds from there.
Jacobson describes her process: Beginning without preconceived ideas, I carve into foam blocks and document my body movements as gestural marks upon the surface. A reference to modern industrial construction and layers of geological time, my sculptures epitomize the tension between erosion and gesture of motion. Some forms are further converted by casting them into aluminum to create enduring metal forms of petrified energy. Informed by observations of natural landscapes, my sculptures convey artificial construction as a natural phenomenon.
For more information, contact
Gwenda Joyce/Art & Landscape
707.938.8877 or artandland@hughes.net
www.artandland.com
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