MASTER CLASS BY BILL JACOBSON - OBLIQUE STRATEGIES
The master class Oblique Strategies by Bill Jacobson is meant for senior students of photography at art academies or post studies and for photographers who graduated from such a study, preferably within the last three years. The class will be held at the Noorderlicht Photogallery on May 26th, 2007.
Outline Oblique Strategies
On May 26th New York based photographer Bill Jacobson will teach a one day master class in the Noorderlicht Photogallery. The title Oblique Strategies is borrowed from a deck of cards created by Brian Eno in the seventies. Each card in the stack has a phrase which essentially encourages the user to approach a situation in an alternative, more open, and hopefully more creative way.
The master class will encourage participants to 'think outside of the box' while deepening their own practice.
The first part of the morning session will begin with an overview of artists and photographers who have used the photographic medium in a variety of nontraditional ways. Beginning with Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and other pioneers, and continuing through contemporaries such as Adam Fuss, Anselm Keifer, and Thomas Demand, a variety of approaches, or strategies, will be considered which extend beyond the photograpic tradition of taking a straight picture of something in the real world. The merger of photography with painting, sculpture, installation, theater, and conceptual practices will all be looked at.
The remainder of the class will be spent doing critique of participants' work (traditional or not), and dialogue amongst all participants will be encouraged. Participants are requested to bring approximately 10 images which best represent their thoughts and vision.
Bill Jacobson - Interim Thoughts, and Others
May 26 - June 24 Noorderlicht Photogallery
Bill Jacobson will visit Noorderlicht for the opening of his exhibition Interim Thoughts, and Others. Jacobson is well known for work that negates -through the application of a defocused lens- the specificity of photographic vision, suggesting instead the immateriality of the physical world.
Interim Thoughts, and Others brings together an ensemble of images from Bill Jacobson's four previous series and his most recent works produced on his travels around the United States and Europe, including Funny, Cry, Happy (2004-2006).
Bill Jacobson (USA, 1955) is an artist who is based in New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and his MFA from the San Francisco Institute of Art. Since 1980, Jacobson has exhibited extensively in both group and one-person shows in museums and galleries throughout the US and Europe. His work is in many international collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and London's Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1997 Twin Palms publishers (Santa Fe) published Bill Jacobson 1989-1997; last year, Bill Jacobson Photographs was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag (Stuttgart).
Bill Jacobson also participates in the Noorderlicht project Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking (artist in residency 2006).
Bill Jacobson links
Saul Gallery, New York
G. Gibson Gallery, Washington
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
