Karen S Jacobs
My Muse - moving skies over open waters.
My Vision - land or water, sky, and the horizon.
My Intent - to capture the ever-changing emotional moments and memories life
brings. My Obsession – works in series, each shaping and informing the next.
My Hope - moving the viewer in unexpected ways.
Until the summer of 1991 my life was full of family and work, with little
time for other pursuits. As a Pediatric Occupational Therapist for more
then 20 years, I assisted children with learning and motor deficits to
succeed in the life skills and activities of daily living that were so
challenging to them. I often used artist’s tools and materials during
therapy sessions.
That summer, almost on a whim, I enrolled in a beginning drawing class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I had always had an interest in art, but never pursued it, and thought it would be a fun experience. It was much more meaningful then a fun experience. The drawing experience and classes at the Museum School focused on process and seeing, elements that I used when working to assist "my kids". The tools I had used to enable others to move forward did the same for me. My experience at the Museum School inexplicably altered my life.
My passion to help the disabled turned inward. I discovered aspects of myself not tapped before. During the seven years leading up to my graduation from the Museum School in 1998, my focus shifted from others to my inner self and to making art.
Finding my voice through art has been an unexpected journey. My artistic voice now takes form in abstract seascapes and landscapes. I depict skies full of movement and reflected light on water or land. These “scapes” express how everything seems to stay the same, and yet from minute to minute, and hour-to-hour, important and inexplicable life moments can happen. They are metaphors for the ephemeral emotional moments that occur in real time.
Karen S. Jacobs
| EDUCATION | |
| 1992 – 1998 |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts; Focus on painting, drawing, print making |
| 1964 – 1968 |
Boston University, Boston, MA Bachelor of Science; Certificate of Occupational Therapy |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| June/August, 2010 |
Off The Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Jurors: Jen Mergel, Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| December, 2009 | Annual Small Works Exhibition, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA |
| December, 2009 | Red Door Gallery Invitational, Dover, MA |
| May/June, 2009 | Found at Fountain Street * 9 artists, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA |
| March, 2009 | Group Show, The Center for the Arts, Natick, MA |
| March, 2009 | Fountain Street Artists Present, Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, MA |
| December, 2008 | Red Door Gallery Invitational, Dover, MA |
| July, 2008 | American Summer ’08, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA |
| March, 2008 | The Canvasation Project, Gallery xiv, Boston, MA |
| December, 2007 | Holiday Invitational, J and A Gallery, Dedham, MA |
| April, 2007 | Fountain Street Artist Present, Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham, MA |
| December, 2006 | Red Door Gallery Invitational, Dover, MA |
| March, 2006 | Group Show, Tower Gallery, Framingham, MA |
| January, 2005 | Boston Art, South End Artists, Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA |
| May, 2004 | 55th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT |
| May, 2003 | 72nd Annual Spring Exhibition, National Art League, Douglaston, NY |
| May, 2002 | A Conversation Among Three Artists, Art Space Gallery, Maynard, MA |
| September, 2001 | USEA Group Exhibition, Window on Porter Square Gallery, Cambridge, MA |
| February, 2001 | Environmental Injustices, Gallery of Social & Political Art, Boston, MA |
| May, 2001 | 70th Annual Spring Exhibition, National Art League, Douglaston, NY |
| May, 2001 | Refugees & Immigration, Gallery of Social & Political Art, Boston, MA |
| December, 1999 | 450 Group Show, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA |
| April, 1997 | Student Annual Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| October, 1996 | Annual Juried Drawing Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts |
| OTHER VENUES | |
| 2005 – 2010 | Fountain Street Studios Open Studios Weekend, Framingham, MA |
| 2005 – 2010 | Fountain Street Artists Exhibition, The Framingham Library, Framingham, MA |
| 1998 – 2005 | United South End Artist's Association Open Studios Weekend, Boston, MA |
| 1997 – 2010 | December Show & Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 2010 | The MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| April, 2007 | "In America", Metrowest Daily News, Framingham, MA |
| April, 2005 | "Work of Art", Framingham TAB, Framingham, MA |
| April, 2005 | "Fountain of Art Spills Over with Talent", Metrowest Daily News, Framingham, MA |
| July/August, 2004 | "Laurapalooza", SoWa News, Boston, MA |
| REPRESENTATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS | |
| 2005 – present | Fountain Street Studios |
| 2004 – present | Debbie Bowen Associates |
| 1998 – present | United South End Artists Association |