Regina Jacobson’s show A Beautiful Lie will run until March 5th. A closing reception will be held in the downtown CBU gallery (3737 Main St #101, Riverside, CA 92501) from 6-9 pm.
Below is the Gallery statement by Duncan Simcoe, Professor of Visual Arts.
Red Petticoat, 2014. Oil on canvas. 48 x 36.
Regina Jacobson
Regina Jacobson’s masterful paintings occupy a provocative niche in contemporary art.
Working out of a neo-Realist tradition, she constructs symbolic fields of images, which verge on being Allegorical in that theological/mythological and literary imagery is framed within a language infused with the desire to tell stories.
Regina Jacobson
These works draw from her own history of mother-daughter dynamics, a childhood love of literature and years of working experience in the fashion industry. The resulting works are charged critiques of cultural mandates about acceptable bodies/faces and sexualized behaviors for young women, matched with poignant evocations of the ‘sad girl’ phenomena; interior universes constructed as a mythic forest in which the isolated psyche wanders, prone to narcissism or self-discovery, depending on which path you take! Interestingly, as in the Garden, a male God wanders here too, but communion comes off as another kind of demand, and she ends up wondering, like the old 3rd c. exegete, Origen, about just what Christ meant when he said you need to “pluck out your eye” (?), or in Ms. Jacobson’s case, pull off your arm (Can You Hear Me Now?).
Regina Jacobson
The show has been covered by American Art Collector as well as Explore CBU. Jacobson is
More of her work can be seen here: http://reginajacobson.com/