ArtSpace

EDWARD & BERNICE WENGER CENTER
FOR THE ARTS — ARTSPACE

KATHY HOWARD JACOBSON 

On display September-November (you do not need to be a member to visit, click here to view our building hours)

Kathy Howard Jacobson is a New York-based photographer. Her work is largely comprised of street photography, photojournalism, portraiture, and most recently, abstracts, or what she refers to as “The beauty in details unseen”.

Kathy has been photographing since the mid-1970s. Earning an undergraduate degree and an MFA in Photography, she went on to work professionally as a multi-image/ special effects photographer and pursue her fine art photography as well.

Kathy’s projects of note include her photographic essays on Homelessness, New York City’s Garment Center and Chinatown, a collection of portraits made with Polapan film, and her collection of “Urban Paintings”.  Her images of urban walls are an artistic record of the social/political and cultural issues that she has been documenting for decades. Kathy’s photographs of peeled posters reveal beauty and romance from that which is decomposed, conflict and revolt, sadness, isolation, and her love of pure abstraction.

In her most recent work, Kathy turns inward, exploring deeply personal themes. She captures an intimate vantage point from a French country bedroom, transforms distorted reflections into seascape watercolors, and finds beauty and abstraction in unremarkable, everyday environments.

“I have been photographing for fifty years. As a photographer, I have gained access to people and places that I would not have had the opportunity to explore otherwise.  My camera allows me to look at the world and to make pictures of how I personally see it.  When I am immersed in photographing, it is where I am meant to be.“