By
Sarah Jacobs
Piece description from the artist
The sundial is a poignant symbol for both mundane earthy pursuits (What time is it?) and reverence for the cosmos because the reading requires our Sun.
I’ve come to recognize that we are all intrinsically part of nature. Does that mean that your city girl here is going to sleep in a tent? Absolutely not; I’m no Survivorman, I have a medical condition that requires cell service just in case, and I’m high maintenance. No joke! We don’t have to leave the city to BE Nature, but I do want to connect more with other natural things, so I made this painting depicting wanderers who are prepared with their contraptions, working together, tiptoeing onto a misty lake beach. The second wanderer is the viewer, invited to pick up the contraption and follow me onto the beach.
Although I love his painting, I always thought Casper David Friedrich’s adventurer in “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” seemed a little too cocky. Those rocks look really slippery. Nature is awe inspiring, but it can also be dangerous… and slippery. Just like us!
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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