Richard Jacobson: Pieces from a Different Puzzle Catalogue

RICHARD JACOBSON PIECES FROM A DIFFERENT PUZZLE

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Catalogue by: Yodit Adonai

Table of Contents About the Artist Artist Statement Artwork: baseball Bigger Bang Garlic in a jar I am Batman? incident at Bromhead jewel jar and spoon sealed flower skull jar and open jack knife Sweet tooth the hauler Uncle’s flight with open eyes Price List

About the Artist Richard Jacobson was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. As a young man he was always writing stories and sketching so it was a natural outcome that at 18 years of age he decided to pursue art as a serious career.

He moved to Calgary and enrolled in the Alberta College of art where he graduated from the Visual Communications program with honors. Armed with a new job as art director, illustrator and production head with Business Life magazine, he proceeded to move to Toronto when the magazine decided to relocate.

Jacobson has worked as an illustrator, painter, writer, and designer. As an illustrator he painted the trillium for the Ontario driver’s license, the Leaf for the Air Canada as well as 19 children’s books.

Richard Jacobson has written and published 3 children’s books winning several awards including The Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon’s award gold medal and the Ruth Schwartz award.

As a painter he has painted portraits of David Thomson, Margaret Atwood , Robertson Davies, Sir Christopher Ondaatje, Bill Gates Senior and Sir Richard Francis Burton (permanent collection of the Royal Geographical Society in London England).

He has been featured in Smithsonian and Applied arts magazine as well as The Artist’s Magazine.

Jacobson continues to live in Toronto.

Artist Statement If you imagine the studio as a giant sandbox for adults, you can get a sense of what it’s like to work as an artist.

There is no greater pleasure to step into the studio with a wild abandon of childish excitement. To allow play to lead you through your thoughts and feelings and help you ultimately come to grips with what it is to be human. Of course, every hour, day, week, month or even sometimes a year is that way. The feeling is so powerful though it draws the artist back again and again for it.

So we as artists use the mindset of our earliest years to communicate more profound and essential truths.

“Your next painting is in the painting you are working on” I always thought Chuck Close said this; however, I am not sure anymore; however, that does not diminish the truth of this statement. The more time I spend in the studio working or simple tinkering as my father would say, the more new perspectives reveal themselves, new connections between imagery and emotions become clearer.

The trick is to be able to reach out and touch that clarity. Of course, for a painter, that horror of watching as every single brush stroke takes the painting farther from the perfect nebulous image in the mind’s eye to the rather dull version in the real world, is the reality. Paintings are by their very nature are imperfect objects made of real wood, canvas and coloured mud. It’s the promise of the perfect image in the mind’s eye that pushes me forward.

“Paintings are never completed; they are only abandoned.” Paul Valéry 1933 This collection is, for the most part, a step into my mind. It holds many ideas and thoughts that will come together to more significant, more concise senses or they are already as far as I will follow the path a particular work has presented.

They are “Pieces from a different puzzle.”

baseball, 2020, Oil on Panel, “8x8”

Bigger Bang, 2019, Oil on Panel, “8x10”

Garlic in a jar, 2020, Oil on Panel, “10x8”

I am Batman? 2019, Oil on Panel, “48x36”

incident at Bromhead, 2020, Oil on Panel, “48x48”

jewel jar and spoon, 2020, Oil on Panel “24x18”

sealed flower, 2020, Oil on Panel “24x18”

skull jar and open jack knife, 2020, Oil on Panel “10x8�

Sweet tooth, 2020, Oil on Panel, “48x36”

the hauler, 2020, Oil on Panel, “36x60”

Uncle’s flight, 2020, Oil on Panel, “48x48”

with open eyes, 2020, Oil on Panel, “48x48”

Price List 1. Jacobson, Richard

baseball, 2020 Oil on Panel, “8x8” $1,200

2. Jacobson, Richard

Bigger Bang, 2019 Oil on Panel, “8x10” $1,500

3. Jacobson, Richard

Garlic in a jar, 2020 Oil on Panel, “10x8” $1,500

4. Jacobson, Richard

I am Batman? 2019 Oil on Panel “48x36” $9,500

5. Jacobson, Richard

incident at Bromhead, 2020 Oil on Panel “48x48”

$9,500

9. Jacobson, Richard

Sweet tooth, 2020 Oil on Panel “48x36” $9,500

6. Jacobson, Richard jewel jar and spoon, 2020

10. Jacobson, Richard

7. Jacobson, Richard sealed flower, 2020

11. Jacobson, Richard

8. Jacobson, Richard

12. Jacobson, Richard with open eyes, 2020 Oil on Panel “48x48” $9,500

Oil on Panel, “24x18” $4,200

Oil on Panel, “24x18” $4,200

skull jar and open jack knife, 2020 Oil on Panel “10x8” $1,500

the hauler, 2020 Oil on Panel “36x60” $9,500

Uncle’s flight, 2020 Oil on Panel “48x48” $9,500

Abbozzo Gallery Member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada 401 Richmond Street West Suite 128, Toronto ON, M5V 3A8 Tel: 416-260-2220 Toll Free: 1-866-844-4481 abbozzogallery.com

Catalogue by: Yodit Adonai