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Web: mikejacobsart.com
Email: [email protected]
My Story:
Born and raised in New York City. I started drawing in my early 20’s when I was handed a technical drawing pen that felt so right in my hand that the black inked line took on a life of its own.
Of late I use a menagerie of colored pencils, gel pens, and acrylic markers. Music, sport, nature, various personal preoccupations are motifs that leap out from my imagination. Most pictures are unplanned. I lay a line and create by instinct. Once a piece is hatched, it becomes. Until I conclude it's done.
I may be self-taught. But I don’t consider my art to be “outsider.” I live in and breathe New York City. My visual heroes include 20th century art namesakes. My art has been described as “urban, jazzy, non-drug induced psychedelic mayhem.” It has been characterized as belonging to the “free figuration” #figurationlibre movement.
Representation:
EU Representation and Permanent Exhibition 2021-present:
Galerie Plurielle
65 & 76, Grand'rue Mario Roustan 34 200
Sete, France.
https://galerieplurielle.fr/
Shows:
2022, September-December, Art on the Corner Group Show, 2780 Broadway, Morningside Heights, NY
2022, July-September, Art on the Corner Group Show, 2780 Broadway, Morningside Heights, NY
2022, May-June, Art on the Corner Group Show, 2780 Broadway, Morningside Heights, NY
2021, July: Art on the Corner, Group Show, 2780 Broadway,, Morningside Heights, NY
2019: New York Public Library, Morningside Heights, NY. Solo Show: “Mike Jacobs: On Fire.”
2018: New York Public Library, Bloomingdale, NY. Solo Show.
2016: Manhattan Mini Storage, NY. Group Show: Fresh Out of Storage, “A look back at a lifetime of art.”
2013: Upstream Gallery, Group show, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. .
2008-10: Brooklyn, NY. Permanent display, twojakes Gallery. Solo Show.
2007: GaGa Gallery, Garnersville, NY. Group Show: "Outside-In."
2006: Soke Fine Art Gallery, Denver CO. Group show.
2005: Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT. Solo show.
PUBLICATIONS:
Included/featured in:
Brunelle, Justin. (2019) NYCAesthetic Almanac, Past, Present Future, Volume 1. The Gershwin House, NY.
Jacobs, Mike. (2020, April). FU Coronavirus. The Pandemic Post: A Relief Quaranzine, p. 9.