Category: News Updates
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The Now! Body
“The Now! Body – A One Night, Life Changing, All-over Body Xtreme New Power Revolution”takes fitness culture to the extreme to draw attention to and make light of its tropes. Christina Weaver, Nathan Perry and Katie Jacobs examine the underlying ideas of instant gratification, body-image and self-improvement in Western culture. “The Now! Body” investigates the…
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Wolf Head (with sound)
I made this sculpture of a wolf head from ceramics, with sound recordings of humans at a tailgate field emitting from it. I wanted to make an analogy with humans getting drunk and playful and bonding, but also sounding lonely and desperate…like a wolf howling for its friends, or using its mournful sound for communication and…
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Dogs in Progress
I wish these colors were going to turn out like this! Sadly it is food colouring so I know where I’m painting/blending my glazes…but I may have to invent some bright colours for new work seeing this! Light will shine from their eyes, perhaps in a tribute to the Trojan Dog sculpture from my old stomping…
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Toby – Dog of the West Village
Katie Jacobs – Open Studio and Art Exhibition “Dogs of the West Village” Thursday August 1st 2013 6-8pm Greenwich Pottery House 16 Jones St, Greenwich Village New York, New York http://www.greenwichhouse.org People say New York is no place for pets, but it seems New Yorkers didn’t get the memo. I have been working on a…
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Dogs of the West Village
Some of the Dogs of the West Village I sculpted. A lot of these dogs require the final step of glazing, as I was under a three-week time constraint and the final glaze firing couldn’t happen before I left New York. So, with the help of a kind friend who was visiting, I packed 18-ish…
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Exhibition in New York
Katie Jacobs “Dogs of the West Village” August 1st 2013 6-8pm Greenwich Pottery House 16 Jones St, Greenwich Village New York, New York http://www.greenwichhouse.org People say New York is no place for pets, but it seems New Yorkers didn’t get the memo. I have been working on a series of ceramic sculptures of “Dogs of…
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