Devorah Jacoby

Devorah Jacoby Description

In the painterly world that Jacoby creates on canvas, dichotomies coexist with a quiet psychological power: chaos and calm, violence and tranquility, domesticity and adventure, freedom and danger. Jacoby’s paintings are fearless, both in content and the handling of the paint. She lays bare the multiple layers of human interaction and explores the duality between the need to belong and the longing to be separate. She is capable of carefully articulating details like facial expressions in one area of the canvas while operating in long free strokes of the brush and exposed under-painting in another.