Gregory Jacobsen "Effusive Supreme" New Paintings

Gregory Jacobsen:

I paint figures, focusing on the little bits that obsess me- a little flab hanging over a waistband, ill-fitting shoes, overbites, noses, teeth, and flesh. Either through portraiture or busy tableaux, I create a world and vocabulary of characters that live and embrace their so-called faults.

Over the years, this work has developed into piles that are corpulent and visceral stand-ins for characters. Meat, junk, pastries, and genital-like fruit and vegetables are constructed into heroic yet pathetic towers. These piles also act as a sort of forensic evidence and cataloging of awkward sex, gross gluttony, ridiculous masturbation rituals, and endless humiliation and failure. 

The work is absurd, grotesque, and a bit brutal, but I try to bring the viewer in with lush and glowing surfaces, creating a disorientating and hilarious balance of revulsion and attraction.

I also paint glamourous cats.