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Bill Jacobson - Funny Cry Happy Bill Jacobson - funny cry happy Bill Jacobson, in his two previous solo shows in Stockholm, has presented his well-known out-of-focus images that illicit universal memories and recollections of people and places emblematic of a generation. Jacobson’s photographs articulate loss as a writer might formulate a novel. The series Interim Landscapes from the mid 80's are symbolic of a maturing process that found the artist (metaphorically) moving from the comfort of a small New England town to New York City. His subsequent series Interim Portraits and Songs of Sentient Beings spoke to the highly emotional AIDS crisis that evolved in the late 80’s. In the late 90's, Jacobson turned to color as he began photographing outdoors both in the city and in nature. He was asking more existential questions. In this new series, funny cry happy all the images are now in focus shot with a large format camera, and are no less symbolic and didactic. As with Alfred Stieglitz's cloud series, these works are "equivalents" far beyond what the formal shapes of the closely cropped images represent. Mr. Jacobson has been included in the collections of DG Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY among others. Bill Jacobson 1989 – 1997 was published by Twin Palms (Santa Fe) in 1998, and his most recent publication Bill Jacobson Photographs, published this year by Hatje Cantz (Stuttgart ) is available through the gallery. Bill Jacobson (US) Selected images courtesy Milliken Gallery Installation view, Funny Cry Happy, 2005. Bill Jacobson (US) Selected images courtesy Milliken Gallery Installation view, Funny Cry Happy, 2005. Bill Jacobson (US) Selected images courtesy Milliken Gallery Installation view, Funny Cry Happy, 2005. Bill Jacobson (US) Selected images courtesy Milliken Gallery Installation view, Funny Cry Happy, 2005. Bill Jacobson (US) Selected images courtesy Milliken Gallery Installation view, Funny Cry Happy, 2005. BILL JACOBSON EDUCATION 1981 MFA in Photography, San Francisco Art Institute 1977 BFA, Brown University. Independent concentration in Art and American Studies which included photography classes at Rhode Island School of Design SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA Langhans Galerie, Prague Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York Exile, Berlin 2008 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 2007 M+B, Los Angeles Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, Groningen, Holland FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France 2006 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Milliken Galery, Stockholm Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London Zinc Gallery, Stockholm Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2000 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Rhodes & Mann, London Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston 1999 Zinc Gallery, Stockholm G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1998 Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1996 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO 1995 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED 1993 Photographers' Gallery, London 1994 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 1993 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY Da'Vera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 OS Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 The Ambush, San Francisco, site-specific installation SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Windows and Mirrors, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Male, An Exhibition of Work from the Collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York, NY; travels to Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, and the City, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, catalogue 2007 Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland A New York Picture Post, Gotham in the Twentieth Century, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS Mystery: Photographs & Video, curated by George Spencer, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY Wall House #2, (one of eight commissioned projects), Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, catalogue. Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA OOG-EYE, Foam, Amsterdam 2006 The Machine, The Body, and The City, Modern Photographs from the Charles Cowles Collection, Miami, Art Museum Miami, FL, catalogue In Sight, Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, IL Home is Where the Art Is, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Sans Regard, Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland Fifteen and 1/2, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA Horrors of War, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 2005 Sans Regard, Recontre de la Photographie, Arles, France In Focus, Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC New to View, Recent Acquisitions of Photography, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA Group Exhibition, Hamiltons, London New Art, New York: Reflections On The Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria Double Exposure, Galeria 2000, Nurnberg, Germany and Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany Landscape as Metaphor, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, catalogue Solitude and Focus, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, catalogue The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fawbush Editions, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY Home Again, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA Embodiment, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2004 Il Nudo, Ideale e Realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, catalogue Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England, catalogue 2003 Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York. Travels to G Fine Art, Washington, DC, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Galerie Graff, Montreal Photographs: Re-examining the Male and Female Nude, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Blurred, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Visions and Revisions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fleshtones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Bowdoin, Maine, Travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City and the Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas Boys of Summer, ClampArt, New York By The Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 2002 Urban Visions, The St. James Group Ltd Photography Prize 2002, Flowers East Gallery, London. Catalogue. Blurred Image, Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED 2002 Escaping the Vault: The Contemporary Museum's Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Fiat Lux, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Everyman, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA The Other Face, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany 2001 The Human Figure in Photography, 1843-2000: Selections from the Grunwald Center Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY Portraits: Real and Imaginary, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2001 Rocks and Trees, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, catalogue 2000 Surviving the Photograph, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ The Liminal Body, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, catalogue Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Focused Reality, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY In Black and White, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY Fusion, Rhodes & Mann, London, catalogue Rapture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Catalogue published by Aperture Photographs from the '90s, Anita Friedman Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Ex-Change, La Criee, Rennes, France Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wesel + O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, catalogue The American Century, Part III: 1968-1999, James Danziger Gallery,
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