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Sarah Jacobs
Tacky, Original Signed Contemporary Botanical Marijuana Still Life Painting
2022

About the Item

Tacky, Original Contemporary Botanical Marijuana Still Life Painting 20" x 16" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist. This composition by artist Sarah Jacobs plays with the subject of marijuana, known colloquially as pot or weed, striking a balance between the fanciful depictions often associated with the plant and a more realistic approach. Straying away from the more cartoonish representations the plant often gets, Jacobs has imbued a sense of dignity to its botanical form while keeping an air of playfulness with the inclusion of glowing stars as a backdrop. The lighting on the leaves is dynamic, allowing for high contrast and a sense of drama to play through the composition. Artist Commentary: I noticed that a lot of pot art is not painted very well. I like some of the tropes of weed-art though, like how it is often floating, has sparkles around, and stark backgrounds. I wanted to keep those fun tropes, but paint the marijuana well and lovingly. It deserves the same attention to detail as other plants that I paint. I tilted this painting "Tacky,"" because it means both "in bad taste" and "sticky." Sticky is also an adjective applied to high quality marijuana. About the Artist: Sarah Jacobs is a contemporary artist. Her work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and she has taken part in artist residencies in Grimma, Germany, Cali, Colombia, and Taos, New Mexico. She has won multiple grants, including the Arts Council England Grant, and her work can be found in public and private collections in the US, UK, and Hong Kong. She has had solo and two person exhibitions in New York City, London, Wrocław, Poland and Bristol, England, among other cities. Born in 1984, Jacobs was raised in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Art History at Gettysburg College and received her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2010. There she studied under Joyce Kozloff and Timothy App. Jacobs moved back to the USA in 2014 after 3 years living in London and Bristol, UK where she became a naturalized British citizen.

Creator:

Sarah Jacobs

Creation Year:

2022

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century