User:Bebopped/sandbox/PETER JACOBS : Collage Artist

Peter Jacobs: Collage Artist Peter Jacobs has worked in the mediums of collage, photography and mixed media for over thirty years. He is in numerous collections and has exhibited his work nationally and abroad, including five museum exhibitions. Jacobs was the recipient of the top individual fellowship award in 1991 from The N.J. State Council on the Arts and was a featured artist on PBS, State of The Arts in 2013.

Peter Jacobs, who has been involved with the art of collage for over three decades and has developed a complex visual language that seeks to reconcile the rational with the irrational. On March 31st 2005, Jacobs created a 9” x 12” collage using that day’s New York Times, and have continued that process without interruption every day since, even when traveling.

The collages are created solely from the images, colors and texts of that day’s newspaper. Each day Jacobs extracts, redefines, composes and transforms the media’s elements. They are paintings with paper, theatrical stages of abstracted color and rhythms, layers that imbue surreal narratives, symbolism hidden in humor, social commentary, cultural irony, and pure visual perception.

The Collage Journal is integrated into his daily life as a meditation, contemplation and daily source of creative expression. Over 5,000 collages reside in over 450 Strathmore books.

They are posted each day’s and every day for the past 14 years on his blog, www.thecollagejournal.blogspot.com. My ongoing daily practice “The Collage Journal” has now passed 14 years. & http://thecollagejournal.com

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