2011 TAG Limited Art Edition
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Bill Jacobson
New Year’s Day #5090
2003
archival pigment print
12 x10 inches mounted to 17 x15 inches museum board
edition of 20 + 5 A/P
editions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 for sale
courtesy the artist and Julie Saul Gallery, New York
valued at $3,500
Bill Jacobson (b. 1955, Norwich, Connecticut) is widely known for his out of focus photographs of both the figure and the landscape. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others. In 2012, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
He began his signature, indistinct images in 1989, and has since been exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the US and Europe. These early works, titled Interim Portraits, feature shadowy, pale figures that evoke the loss experienced by many during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The blurred subjects underline the futility of capturing a true human likeness in both portraiture and memory.
Bio courtesy of https://www.billjacobsonstudio.com/wp/biography/