Every morning,
Exacto knife in hand, Peter Jacobs sits down to read the newspaper.
When he finishes, two to three hours later, the newspaper resembles
Swiss cheese and the images he has excised from it have been
transformed into a 9 by 12-inch collage. Every day since March
31, 2005, Jacobs has made a collage solely from that day’s
newspaper. He hasn’t missed a day, not even when he travels.
Eric Levin The Montclair
Times
Visit each of the complete
first three years
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Peter Jacobs, who has been involved with
the art of collage for over two decades,has developed a
complex visual language that seeks to reconcile the rational
with the irrational. Jacobs' collages are usually comprised
of spliced images applied to an architectonic framework.
The stability of the architectural foundation allows him
to juxtapose incongruous elements that, in spite of themselves,
produce a singular cohesive vision. Instinctively the artist
seems to assert the primacy of visual relationships over
knowledge: in his world it is color, line and space, not
reason, that are determinants of logic. The art of collage,
as a reconfiguration of discarded images, is a medium destined
to render order out of chaos. Jacobs has understood this
inherent dilemna and resolves it in a manner that is decidedly
postmodern.
Passages of humor and wit, beauty and
nature, psychology and rhetoric, coexist as a fragmented
though unified whole. Indeed, Jacobs continues to reconsider
the formal aspects of collage while adhering to the basic
principles of its Cubist origins,as an ironic form of expression.
Marina Delaney
Chair: Visual Arts Dept., Dowling College
There is an inescapable
momentum to this artist’s project, and part of the
excitement of his work is the anticipation of what will
come next; in the news, in the art, and on the imaginative
plain where the two intersect.........
