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Colter Jacobsen

Essays

Opening: Friday, September 7, 6–8pm

September 7 – October 14, 2018

An installation view that includes small magazine clippings piled on a wooden pedestal at right, and 4 mixed-media works installed on the wall.
An installation view that includes small magazine clippings piled on a wooden pedestal in the foreground, and 6 mixed-media works installed on the wall.
An installation image of 6 mixed media works on paper installed on the wall with no frames
Left to right: an installation of three mandala drawings (colored pencil on paper), one mandala depicted on cardboard, and a mandala on a piece of wood.
An installation view of 2 mandala works at left (cardboard, wood board) with 2 more works on the far wall. The far wall has 2 photographs, and one small drawing.
An installation view of 2 photographs, and 2 drawings, installed on the wall without frames
An installation view of 3 works on paper installed on the wall, without frames
An installation view with a pedestal filled with magazine clippings in the foreground at left. On the wall in the distance is a sculpture made up of old cigarette cartons on a shelf, and 2 other drawings on paper without frames.
An installation view, on the wall is a sculpture made up of old cigarette cartons on a shelf, and 4 other drawings on paper without frames.
An installation view of a pencil on paper drawing of a Japanese pagoda tree. Beneath is is a small sculpture of small seeds on a shelf; above it is a single swirl of hair wrapped around a nail and making a corkscrew shape.
A photograph of a black spot on a grass patch, with the silhouette of a person over it. The silhouette matches up so that the black spot is the silhouette's head.
A piece of cardboard painted with pink X's, that also has a small fuchsia starburst at the top of the piece. It is placed the "Callicoon Fine Arts" logo in the gallery's front window.
A drawing of Casper the ghost done on the back of 4 postcards. Casper is drawn like he is a connect the dots exercise.
A drawing of 3 trees, equidistant from one another, with their branches bare. Between certain branches, color has been filled in to make an abstract composition. There are cool colors (blue, purple, green). Beneath the drawing is a patchwork piece of paper that it degrading and dirty, asymmetrical
A drawing on paper that is pasted to a black sheet of watercolor paper that has some water damage and variation. The drawing looks like a thicket from a forrest, and has a cluster of empty circles in the center.
A close up of the center of the drawing, which shows us the empty circles and the abstracted spindles of the forrest.
An drawing on paper that is framed by the chipboard that the paper is glued to. The drawing itself is a silhouette of a human head defined by abstract shapes and lines.
A faint drawing on paper of a field of tall grass. Some leaves and branches are very detailed, others are just silhouettes.
A detail shot of the pencil drawing containing blades of grass, leaves, and flowers.
An ink drawing on paper of many small squiggles. There is a rough outline of a frame, intermittently filled with squiggles. There is also a crescent moon shape in the center of the paper, and a small iris shape emerging from the bottom of the blank border section of the paper.
A detail shot which depicts the iris-shape sprouting from near the bottom of the piece of paper.
A mandala drawing of a spiraling pattern in blue, brown, and orange. There is a yellow dot in the center of the shape.
Two nearly identical photographs of a woman holding a baby in a christening gown. In the sepia image to the left, there is a little boy over the right shoulder of the mother; in the black and white image on the right he has been omitted.
A drawing on paper of the Trevi Fountain horse and his horseman. There are two drawings, and they are mirror images of one another.
A close of up 3 squashed Marlboro cigarette containers, glued to substrates including an empty jewelry box and a leather wallet.
A drawing of two women standing next to a table that has bowls and napkins upon it. One looks 19th century (puffed skirt, updo), which the other looks like she's from 1920 (long scarf, wrap dress, floppy hat)
Two versions of a similar sunset: one is a postcard behind plexiglas, the other is a pack of cigarettes. They are hung next to each other on the wall.
A drawing on paper of a Japanese pagoda tree, with a section of musical notes on the top-middle.
A close up of the Japanese pagoda with the musical notes of "Nature Boy" visible
6 seeds on a small wooden shelf, installed on the wall
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