Woven Living Room Installation
"I feel you can have a voice here," says Jacobs. "You can explore, and I like to do that. I have that curiosity to keep on exploring with my drawings and see what I can do with them." Jacobs' new show at Montrose's Anya Tish Gallery, titled Come Alive for a Few Seconds, opens next week and runs through Jan. 2. It features her tiny, hand-drawn silhouette figures, on paper as well as in short, animated videos, each exhibiting their own unique physical quirks while squished together with no concern for social distancing.
In Air
On one gallery wall, a projection of over a hundred of these animated Lilliputians move about like bees in a beehive, their incessant busyness belying the weight of loneliness each figure seems to bear, even as they jump up and down or do handsprings. "That's kind of how I see people," says Jacobs, who enjoys observing how people move and behave in space. "Although we are together and we connect, we're really kind of alone with our own histories."
The show also includes one of Jacobs' disorienting "woven room" installation environments, where familiar domestic objects such as televisions and lamps are covered with interweaving black and white lines, all drawn by hand with a paint marker. "It's almost like an ongoing path with no end," says Jacobs of her work, which always begins with a pen and the line. Her open-ended approach to making art provides the viewer with a path, but not necessarily a destination, like an unfinished story we carry within ourselves.
- Avenue Gets to the Art of the Matter - Houston CityBook ›
- A Day in the Life of the Arts | Houston CityBook ›
- This Week in Art - Houston CityBook ›
- In Vibrant New Show at Foltz, Two Takes on Nature and Spirituality Meld - Houston CityBook ›
- Show of Texas Artists — Including Houstonian Who Works with Glitter and Giftwrap — to Open at Tish - Houston CityBook ›
- Summer Is Usually Slow for Art in Houston, but Not this Year - Houston CityBook ›
- Celebrating Connection and Togetherness, Gabriel Martinez’s Exhibit Comes to a Close - Houston CityBook ›
- H-Town's Largest Silent-Art Auction Raises Quarter-Mil for Artists, Charity - Houston CityBook ›
- After Artist’s Tragic Death, His Daughter Looks to the Stars in Moving New Show - Houston CityBook ›
- ‘Selfie with Godzilla’?! Artist Fuses Reality and Science Fiction in Multimedia Gallery Show - Houston CityBook ›
- Aspen-Based Artist Opens Long-Awaited Gallery in Upper Kirby - Houston CityBook ›
- For This Artist, Documenting the Process of Making Art Is Art Unto Itself - Houston CityBook ›
- Contemporary Artists Shine, Celebrate the End of Summer at Heights Gallery Group Show - Houston CityBook ›
- An Arts Writer Offers a Moving Tribute to the Late Gallerist Anya Tish - Houston CityBook ›
