Kathryn Jacobi

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kathrynjacobi2@me.com

 

VITA  

Jacobi, Kathryn; born New York, NY 1947
Paintings, Drawings, Graphics; Photography
B.A. 1978; M.A. 1980, California State University, Northridge

 

REPRESENTED BY  

Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Davidson Galleries, Seattle,WA (prints)

 

EXHIBITIONS    
2009  

Sleepwalking Through The Apocalypse:ContinuingNew Studies; Cornell Museum of Art/Rollins College; Orlando, FL (pending)
New Paintings; Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (pending)
Contemporary Figure Painting; Platt and Bornstein Gallery; American Jewiush University; invitational (2 person)

2007
 
Digital Drawings; L.A. Center for Digital Art; Los Angeles, CA
N
ew Imagined Landscapes; Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.; solo
Music; Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery; Jewish Community Center of Greater Vancouver; Vancouver, B.C.;solo (simultaneous with Diane Farris Gallery show)
2006   New Photographs: Cornelson Publishing House Gallery; Berlin, Germany; solo; landscapes and portraits  (40 large format photographs); 19 September- 30 November, 2006
On The Edge; Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, CO; juried international
New Paintings
; Jan Baum Gallery:LA, CA; solo (January 21-February 25,2006)
Canadian Art in Czechoslovakia; Galerie La Femme; Prague, Czechoslovakia: paintings; 3 artists invited for cultural exchange (May, 2006)
LAPS (Los Angeles Printmaking Society) juried membership exhibit; L.A. CA
San Diego Art Institute: 2006 Digital International Exhibition (sponsored by Sony); San Diego,CA; original image created digitally; juried; 2nd Prize
Art of Photography; Lyceum Theater Gallery; San Diego, CA; juried international; large format digital photo
LACDA top 40; (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) Los Angeles, CA; juried, interantional; original image created digitally
2004 - 2005   The Bride's Chamber; Sunshine Coast Art Center; Sechelt, BC, Canada; one of 2 solos shows
Los Angeles Printmaking Society 18th National; Pasadena, CA; juried
New Photographs; Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver, BC, Canada; solo
Bones:Interior and Exterior Architecture; USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Gallery; L.A., CA; paintings; invitational
Paintings; Charles Campbell Gallery; San Francisco, CA; group exhibition invitational
Precious; Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; Paintings; group exhibition of gallery artists
EXHIBITIONS
Selected
SOLO & SEMI-SOLO
   
2002 - 2003   New Work; Northwest College of Art; Bellingham, WA; Paintings and Drawings; semi-solo with artist Pamela Keeley, including collaborations
The Minor Pantheon; Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; New Paintings; solo
Sleepwalkers Through the Apocalypse; Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA; New Monotypes with oil; solo
Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; Paintings; solo (9-2002)
Quiet Traces: Still lifes in Contemporary American Art; Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA ; Paintings; invitational (Spring 2002)
The Perception of Appearance: A decade of American Figure Drawing; The Frye Museum, Seattle, WA; drawing; invitational (6-9--2002)
Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles California; 25th Anniversary of the Gallery exhibit; gallery artists; Paintings 2002
Calfornia State University Chico, Chico, CA; monotypes, invitational 2002
2001   Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Paintings, solo
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.,Canada; Paintings, solo
Hartford Library, Connecticutt: small exhibit of illustrations of poems by Wallace Stevens
2000   Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver; B.C., Canada; Paintings; solo;
Galleri Aalborghallen; Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center; Aalborg, Denmark; Works on Paper: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints; solo
1999   Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; New Paintings; solo
Justina Barnicke Gallery; Hart House;University of Toronto;Toronto, Canada; Paintings; solo; in conjunction with Gallery One, Toronto, Canada; small highlight exhibit of still lifes
Kim Eagles-Smith Fine Arts; San Francisco, CA; Still Lifes and Landscape Paintings; solo;
1998   Cuesta College Art Gallery; San Luis Obispo, CA; Paintings; solo
Santa Barbarba City College Art Gallery; Santa Barbara, CA; Recent Work; solo
College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA;Painters in Contrast: Bob Crew and Kathryn Jacobi; Paintings and Drawings; semi-solo
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Invitation to a Beheading (suite of etchings illustrating the novel by Vladimir Nabokov); solo
1997   Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; New Paintings; solo
Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; New Paintings; solo
Northern Arizona University Museum and Galleries; Flagstaff, AZ; Requiem Chorus and Other Paintings; solo; (travelling)
PDX Gallery; Portand, OR; Recent Work; solo
Wentz Gallery; Pacific Northwest College of Art; Portland,OR; Recent work; solo; (in cooperation with PDX Gallery)
1996   Kirsten Kjaers Museum; Skagan, Denmark; solo; Paintings
Oregon State University, Corvallis; Corvallis, Oregon; Requiem Chorus and other paintings; solo; (travelling)
McAllen International Museum; McAllen, Texas; Requiem Chorus; solo; catalogue; (travelling)
Pierce College; Woodland Hills, CA; solo painter; Paintings
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; The Bride's Chamber; solo; Book Illustration
1995   Riverside Art Museum; Riverside, CA; Requiem Chorus;solo; (travelling)
1994   Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; solo; New Paintings
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA: Requiem Chorus;
Paintings and Drawings; solo; museum residency; travelling
Kunst pa Kalvo; Jutland, Denmark; solo; Paintings and Drawings
1993   Blue Point Gallery, Berlin, Germany; solo; Paintings and Drawings; catalogue;(Galerie Hesselbach)
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada; solo ; Paintings
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; solo; Paintings
1992   Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, CA; solo; New Work
1991   Gallery of the National Technical Institute of the Deaf; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; solo; Paintings
Lizardi-Harp Gallery; Pasadena, CA; solo; Paintings and Drawings
John Thomas Gallery; Santa Monica, CA; solo; Recent Paintings
1990   John Szoke Gallery; Soho, NY; solo; Recent Paintings
1989   Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA;solo painter;New Large Paintings
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; solo exhibition and residency; Portraits and Book Illustrations
Gallery 25, Fresno, CA; solo; Paintings
Brand Galleries, Glendale, CA; semi-solo; Portraits
1988   Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; solo; New Paintings
Platt Gallery/University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA;semi-solo; Paintings and Drawings
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; solo; New Paintings
1986   Bannister Gallery/Rhode Island College, Providence, RI; solo; New Paintings
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; solo; Paintings/Drawings
1974-1985   Available on request
EXHIBITIONS
GROUP
   
2008
 

Fear II; Projekt 30 gallery (online); juried international
Street Photography
; Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, CO; juried international
Emphasis Santa Monica; Madison Campus Gallery, Santa Monica College/invitational
Invitational Exhibit; LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) L.A., CA; invitational

2007
  iBrow; LosAngeles Center for Digital Art, L.A., CA; juried international
Pink Week Art Show; Tangeant Gallery, Sacramento, CA; juried international
30th Anniversary Show; Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; invitational
Summer and other goup shows; Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver/Canada/ invitational
2006
  After Dark; Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, CO; juried international
Canadian Art in Czechoslovakia; Galerie La Femme; Prague, Czechoslovakia: paintings; 3 artists invited for cultural exchange
LACDA top 40; (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) Los Angeles, CA; juried, international; Original Digital Drawing
San Diego Art Institute: 2006 Digital International Exhibition (sponsored by Sony); San Diego,CA; original image created digitally; juried; 2nd Prize
Art of Photography; Lyceum Theater Gallery; San Diego, CA; juried international; large format digital photo
Turning Silver, 25th Anniversary; Women In Photography International (online exhibit); juried, international;Digital Photograph; Honorable Mention
On The Edge; Center for Fine Art Photography: Fort Collins, CO; juried, international; original image created digitally
90th Birthday Exhibit; Charles Campbell Gallery; San Francisco, CA ; Paintings
2005
  Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada; The Land; Paintings
Calif. State University LA, LA CA;Contemporary Stll Life in LA; paintings
2000   Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; gallery artists
Jan Baum Gallery, L.A., CA; Surreal Paintings
Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Gallery artists
1999   Forum Gallery;New York City, NY; New Visions by Nine Contemporary Women; Paintings; invitational
Diane Farris Gallery:Vancouver BC; Sur le Table (stilllifes); Paintings
 1998   Jan Baum Gallery;L.A., CA; “Precious” (still lifes); Paintings
 1997   Universidad Castilla la Mancha; Cuenca, Spain; 30 Los Angeles Artists; Paintings; invitational (travelling to Universidad de Madrid)
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA; Monoprints; invitational
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; Portland, OR; The Garden Show: Paintings; invitational
Richmond Art Center; Beyond Boundaries; Calif. Society of Printmakers; Richmond, CA; juried; Monoprint
Lankershim Arts Center Gallery; Survey of Contemporary American Prints; North Hollywood, CA; juried; Monoprint
Laband Art Gallery; Loyola Marymount University; 14th National Printmaking Exhibit; L.A. CA; juried; Monoprint
Brand Galleries; Glendale, CA; L.A. Printmaking Society Membership Exhibition; juried; monoprint
Great Plains National Printmaking Exhibition; Fifth Street Gallery; Bismark, ND; juried natl.: Monoprint (award)
Santa Monica College; Santa Monica, CA; Reconfigured 1 (Painting) & Reconfigured 2 (Drawing); invitationalal; Paintings and Drawings
The Harvest Show; Diane Farris Gallery; gallery artists; Paintings
My Favorite Fems; Jan Baum Gallery; gallery artists; Paintings
1996   Skirball Museum; L.A., CA; Blessed Are You; invitational; Painting
Art Center College; Pasadena, CA; Drawing from L.A. invitational; Monoprints
Lizardi/Harp Gallery, L.A., CA; L.A. Figures: A Survey of Figurative Painting in Los Angeles; Paintings
Los Angeles Printmaking Society at Lankershim Arts Center; N. Hollywood, CA; Women Artists-Works on Paper; juried; Monoprints
Printwork 96; Barret House Galleries; Poughkeepsie, New York; juried; Monoprint
University of the Pacific: Reynolds Gallery; Stockton, CA; juried, invitational;Three person exhibit of paintings
Stage Gallery; Merrick, NY; The Line Forms Herejuried; 200xhing
Shepherd State College; Works on Paper; Sherherdstown, WV; juried; Monoprints
Castle Gallery; College of New Rochelle; NY; invitational; book illustrations
1995   Sidney Mishkin Gallery of Baruch College (CUNY), New York; Painting in Poetry/ Poetry in Painting; invitational
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Gallery Artists; Painting and Sculpture Forum Gallery; New York, NY; Summer exhibition; invitational; Paintings
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park; L.A., CA; Vital Signs; invitational; paintings
Lizardi/Harp Gallery, L.A., CA; Handprints and Notations; Monoprints
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Angeli; Painting
1994   Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum ; Santa Barbara, CA; In Terms of Time; Paintings
1993   Riverside Art Museum, Riverside,CA; Daytime Fantasies/Night-time Dreams; Paintings and Drawings
1992   Faculdad de Bellas Artes de Madrid; Madrid, Spain; Southern California Artists
1991   Oakland Museum of Art; Oakland, CA; Her Story: Narrative Work by California Artists; Paintings on Paper
Rancho Santiago College; Orange, CA; Inspired Form/ Contemporary Figures; Paintings
Jan Baum Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; Phantasies' group show; New Small Paintings
Lillian Heidenberg Gallery; New York, NY; Holiday group show; New Small Paintings
1990   Jose Drudid-Biada Art Gallery/Mount St. Mary's College; Los Angeles, CA; Portraits
1989   John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY; MAN, WOMAN, CHILD;Paintings
Riverside Art Museum; Riverside, CA; ContemporaryWatercolors; Painting
1988   Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; 13 DOWNTOWNARTISTS; Paintings
1986  
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HA; FIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS; Paintings on paper
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST; Paintings
AWARDS
(selected)
   
2006   San Diego Art Institute: 2006 Digital International Exhibition (sponsored by Sony):San Diego, CA; 2nd Award ; cash prize
National Photo Contest: Portraits (on-line); juried, national; 3 Honorabe Mentions
Turning Silver, 25th Anniversary; Women In Photography International (online exhibit); juried, international; Honorable Mention
LACDA top 40; (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) Los Angeles, CA; juried, international; (inclusion is award); Original Digital Drawing
Great Plains National Printmaking Exhibition; Fifth Street Gallery; Bismark, ND; juried national; Monoprint (award)
1964-1990   Ulysses S. Grant High School Hall of Fame; Los Angeles, CA; awarded in Art (1990)
Brand XVII National Watermedia Exhibition; Glendale, CA; Cash Award; (1986)
National Watercolor Society All Member Show; Riverside, CA; National Watercolor Society Award; (1985)
Watercolor Art Society; Houston, TX; First Prize; (1984)
National Watercolor Society 63rd National; Palm Springs, CA; NWS Member's Cash Award (top cash award (1983)
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition; Denver, CO; Saxon Mountain Gallery Award; (1982)
Brand XII (National Watermedia);Glendale, CA; Brand Associates Purchase Award; (1982)
9th Annual Miniature International Art Show; New York, NY 2nd Place, Graphics; (1983)
National Watercolor Society All Member Show; L.A., CA; NWS Cash Award; (1981)
National Watercolor Society 59th Annual; Riverside, CA; Al Porter Cash Award; (1979)
National Watercolor Society 57th Annual; L.A., CA; Helen Wurdeman Cash Award; (1978)
Illustration West; Los Angeles, CA; Certificate of Merit; 1977
Scholastic Art Awards; L.A., CA for SouthWest U.S. Region; Highest Regional Honors for Pen and Ink, Charcoal, Watercolor, and Mixed Media categories; 4 Blue Ribbons & 3 Gold Keys; (1964)
Hallmark Purchase Award; New York, NY; 1964
Bank of America Achievement Award in the field of Art; L.A., CA; (1964)
PUBLICATIONS (selected)    
   

Terezin Today: a shadow of the nightmare; photos by Kathryn Jacobi; photographs; BlurbPublishers 2008
Interview and feature's Artist of the Month
; online publication for ArtList E-zine by Joseph Hollinshead; March, 2007 www.theartlist.com/aom_03_07.html
The Lives of Dwarfs
; by Betty Adelson ; discussion of KJ's paintings of dwarfs; 2 full color reproductions; Harper Collins 2006
Preview Magazine
; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; articles about KJ's two exhibits; by Mia Johnson; January and February issues, 2007
Emergenetics
by Geil Browning, PhD; full color reproduction +page 247; Collins Books, 2006

The San Diego Union-Tribune
: San Diego, CA: The Vision Thing by Robert L. Pincus for Digital at the S.D. Art Institute explores technology, and finds it's the art that matters--- section of review with image; April 23, 2006
Daily Trojan: LA, CA:The Art of Love; review by Corey Jackson of exhibit at the Jack Rutberg Gallery; May 31, 2001
ARTWEEK; West Coast; Review: “Oregon: Kathryn Jacobi at PDX and the Wentz Gallery “; January 1998
Santa Barbara News Press: Santa Barbara, CA; “The World According to Kathryn Jacobi”; review by Marina Walker for exhibit at SBCC; February 26, 1998
New Times; Central Coast, CA; “Exploring Her Dark Side: An artist Delves into the Mysteries of Subconscious Perception”; review, 2 page spread with color images by Glen Starkey ; March 12-19, 1998
San Lus Obispo County Telegram Tribune, San Luis Obispo, CA: “Faces from the dark side haunt and intigue”; review by Bill Beesom; March 20-26, 1997
THE OREGONIAN; Portland, OR; Visual Arts: Tip Sheet; shorts review of paintings at PDX Gallery by Randy Gragg; November 14, 1997
ART SCENE; Los Angeles, CA;Kathryn Jacobi;review of exhibit at the Jan Baum Gallery; February 1997
THE MONITOR; McAllen, TX; review by Berry Fritz;McAllen International Museum presents exhibit of paintings by Jacobi; September 13, 1996
THE MONITOR; McAllen, TX; review by Sarah Kessinger; Jacobi comes to terms with loss of father through paintings; September 15, 1996
McAllen International Museum catalogue; essays by Terry Melton & Grady Harp; McAllen, TX Sept.-Nov. 1996
EL MANANA; Valle de Texas, Reynosa, Mexico; Amor y muerte, memoria y destino; Requiem Chorus review by Jorge Padin and Leonardo Rodriguez; full page, Sunday, October 6, 1996
Los Angeles Times; Skirball Cultural Center; re:Blessings and Beginnings; Virtues of 'Blessings' Shine Over Problems; mention in review by William Wilson; October 9, 1996
The Fresno Bee; review by David Hale; Dickens' The Bride's Chamber (Artist was drawing like the Dickens; Sunday, February 8, 1996
Vital Signs (Catalogue Essay by Margaret Lazarri and Noel Cortin); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; September- Novemeber 1995
RIVERSIDE PRESS-ENTERPRISE; review by Devorah L.Knaff:Jacobi's diva's come to terms with grief; October 8, 1995
JYDSKEVESTKYSTEN; review by Ulf Gudmunsen; Kunst pa Kalvo, Kathryn Jacobi, American painter and graphic artist; June 23, 1994
JYDSKEVESTKYSTEN; review by Karen Petersen; American in Kalvo; May 6, 1994
Blue Point Gallery Catalogue; essay by Robert Barrett, Director, Fresno Art Museum;
Spring, 1993
ARTWEEK; (Review) by Jamey Brezinski; The Curse of Ideology, Kathryn Jacobi at Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art; May 1, 192
ARTWEEK; Review Shorts; April 11, 1991; review by Marge Bulmer
THE MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA; Volume 15, #1; The Art of the Narrative; by Abby Wasserman
YESTERDAY and TOMORROW: CALIFORNIA WOMEN ARTISTS; Sylvia Moore, Midmarch Arts Press; NY 1989 (photo and essay: Autobiographical Imagery in the Art of Los Angeles Women)
LILITH; Spring, 1991; Volume 16, #2; Turning Life into Art: Ruth Weisberg, Nancy Grossman, Kathryn Jacobi; reprint from EXPOSURES
EXPOSURES: Women and Their Art; Love, Brown, Raven; NewSage Press; CA 1989; photo and essay
L.A. TIMES; review by M. Donahue; Galleries, Part VI, 12-2-88
ArtScene; review by Eleanor Wells; 11-88
ARTWEEK; review by Betty Ann Brown; 12-17-88/Volume 18, #43
The Fresno Bee; reviews and photo essays by David Hale; 10-22-89 and 11-10-89
Daily News; review by Lawrence Enscoe; 4-1-89
ARTspeak; New York; group review by Ed McCormack; 1-16-89
ARTWEEK; review by Ruth Weisberg; 5-10-86
West Hollywood Paper; review by Michael Lawrence; 5-8-86
L.A. Reader; reviews by Marge Bulmer (critic's choice); 5-86, 11-87

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS    
    Centrum Judaicum (Stiftung Neue Synogogue); Berlin, Germany
San Francisco Cultural and Civic Center; San Francisco, CA
American Jewish Committee, Berlin, Germany
Herbert F. Johnson Museum; Cornell University; Ithaca, NY
New York Public Library; New York City, NY
McAllen International Museum, McAllen TX
Kirsten Kjaer Museum; Frostrup; Denmark
BC Hydro, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Brand Galleries, Glendale, CA
California State University, Northridge, CA
NTID, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
National Watercolor Society; Los Angeles, CA
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
Adobe Krow Archives; Bakersfield, CA
BOOK and
JOURNAL ILLUSTRATION
   
    My credits include four books with Harper and Row (Collins) (including Who Is Ben?, written by Charlotte Zolotow,1997; Tomorrow’s Wizard by Patricia MacLaughlin; and The Half-A-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman), New Directions (House Mother Normal), U. of Chicago Press (Special Delivery: Contemporary Epistolary Fiction by Lind Kauffman, U. of New Mexico Press, Duttons, The Sciences Magazine (American Academy of Sciences), Simon and Schuster, London Times Literary Supplement , Price Stern Sloane, Dreamworks (Human Sciences Press), Westways Magazine, California English, American Illustration, Los Angeles Times Book Review and scores of small press and academic journal covers and internal illustrations. I have served as Art Director of the Wallace Stevens Journal since 1976.
    My own small publishing company, Waxwing Editions, has published The Bride’s Chamber, a recently discovered story by Charles Dickens, with a long essay by Harry Stone and my original illustrations, and The Popsicle Moon by Sean Stratton—a CDbook with a narration by Richard Dysart and my own illustrations.
    Please visit the two websites for Waxwing Editions:
waxwingeditions.com
     
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