By
Sarah Jacobs
Piece description from the artist
Chess represents war. When I play I like to play the dramatic choral song “Oh Fortuna” from the Carmina Burana to make gameplay extra tense. This painting is named Betelgeuse after a star in the Orion constellation, which can be seen in the background. The painting seems to be about a moment of drama. Is the subject the human hand moving the bishop like a ventriloquist’s dummy or the chess piece itself representing a player in the war?) Neither… it’s actually a distinct star that couldn’t care less. I’m not suggesting that human concerns and especially violence aren’t important. I’m suggesting that we forget our connection to the rest of the cosmos nearly all the time because we’re wrapped up in our lives. We have to be, or we wouldn’t get anything done.
Sarah Jacobs is a contemporary artist. Her work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and she has taken part in artist residencies in Grimma, Germany, Cali, Colombia, and Taos, New Mexico. She has won multiple grants, including the Arts Council England Grant, and her work can be found in public and private collections in the US, UK, and Hong Kong. She has had solo and two person exhibitions in New York City, London, Wrocław, Poland and Bristol, England, among other cities.
Born in 1984, Jacobs was raised in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Art History at Gettysburg College and received her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2010. There she studied under Joyce Kozloff and Timothy App. Jacobs moved back to the USA in 2014 after 3 years living in London and Bristol, UK where she became a naturalized British citizen.
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