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 EXHIBITIONS | |
| Dec. 2011 | Present Company, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA |
| Oct. 2011 | Zullo Gallery 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Medfield, MA |
| July/Sept. 2011 |
The Fixed and The Fluid, a two person exhibition, Paul Fragala & Associates, Andover, MA Produced by Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA |
| May/June, 2011 |
Aspects of the Ephemeral, Dalton & Finegold LLP, Andover, MA Produced by Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA |
| May/June, 2011 | Transitory Moments, Ashland Public Library, Ashland, MA |
| April, 2011 | 10 X 10 Group Exhibition, Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, Framingham, MA |
| February, 2011 |
Unscripted, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA Jurors: Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA |
| May/June, 2009 | Found at Fountain Street * 9 artists, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA |
| Jan./Feb, 2011 | A Solo Exhibition, Ciao Time Restaurant, Hopkinton, MA |
| January, 2011 | Group Show, Cultural Arts Alliance, Hopkinton, MA |
| 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 |
| March, 2009 | Group Show, The Center for the Arts, Natick, 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 |
| April, 2007 | Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham, MA |
| March, 2006 | Tower Gallery, Framingham, MA |
| January, 2005 | Boston Art, South End Artists, Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 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 |
| OTHER VENUES | |
| 2010 – 2011 | The MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA |
| 2005 – 2011 | Fountain Street Studios Open Studios Weekend, Framingham, MA |
| 1998 – 2005 | United South End Artist's Association Open Studios Weekend, Boston, MA |
| 1997 – 2010 | Inside/Out, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| November, 2010 | Art on Display at Holiday Stroll@, Metrowest Daily News, Framingham, MA |
| 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 | |
| 2011 | Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA |
| 2011 | Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, Framingham, MA |
| 2005 – present | Fountain Street Studios Artist Association |
| 1998 – 2005 | South End Artist Association |
| SELECTED COLLECTIONS | |
| Children’s Floating Hospital | |
| Newbridge on the Charles | |
| Dr. Ralph de La Torre | |
| William & Katherine Osgood | |