Jeffrey Jacoby paints and illustrates fish to sports heroes, haunting characters and Poe-esque fantasies. The common thread: from abstract layers emerge details, precise elements, combining into textures that evoke emotion, and capture a snapshot of place and light. And sometimes dark. Pieces appear effortless from afar, yet reveal their complexity up close. Bold strokes create dancing light, dimensional drips yield a rawness - no painting is too perfect, too precise, nor too abstract. Each is study in contrasts. In life as in...more
