American artist
Wendy W. Jacob (born 1958) is a
multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for works in the areas of
sculpture ,
public art and
urban intervention .
Life
Jacob was born in
Rochester, New York in 1958.
[1]
[2] She received her bachelor's degree from
Williams College in 1980, and her
Master of Fine Arts degree from the
Art Institute of Chicago .
[1]
[2]
[3]
Jacob has been a faculty member at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Illinois State University , and taught at
Massachusetts College of Art and Design .
She lives and works in
Cambridge, Massachusetts .
Art career
Jacob has created installations and interventions in social spaces since 1989, and has developed a distinct body of
sculptural works which investigate the interface between
architecture and the bodies of the people and animals who inhabit the built environment.[
citation needed ] She is also a member of the
Chicago -based collaborative Haha, whose work focuses on the exploration of social positions relative to a particular site, and which has produced over two dozen influential projects since the late 1980s.
[4]
One of Jacob's collaborations has been the creation of the Squeeze Chair , inspired by
Temple Grandin 's
hug machine . For several years in the 1990s, Jacob has worked with Grandin in developing furniture that squeezes or 'hugs' users.
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[6]
[7]
Exhibitions
Jacob has had solo exhibitions at
the
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
(Kansas City) ,
[8]
[9]
the
Madison Art Center (
Madison, Wisconsin , 1999),[
citation needed ]
the
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1998),[
citation needed ]
MIT
List Visual Arts Center ,
[10]
the
Cranbrook Art Museum (
Bloomfield Hills ,
Michigan , 1998),[
citation needed ] and
the
Krannert Art Museum (
Champaign ,
Illinois ) 1997)
[11]
Collections
Jacob's work resides in the collections of
Centre Georges-Pompidou , Paris, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (
fr ), Poitou-Charentre, Poitier, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France;
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego , California; and the
MacArthur Foundation , Chicago, Illinois.[
citation needed ]
Awards
Jacob received the
Creative Capital Visual Arts Award in the year 2000.
[12] In 2011 she received the Maud Morgan Prize from the
Boston Museum of Fine Art .
[1]
In the year 2014-15 she was a
Fulbright Scholar at the
Glasgow School of Art .
Notes and references
^
a
b
c
"In the News - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University" . www.radcliffe.harvard.edu .
^
a
b Beryl J. Wright; Robert Bruegmann; Anne Rorimer (1992).
Art at the Armory: occupied territory . Museum of Contemporary Art.
ISBN
978-0-933856-34-9 .
^ University of Chicago. Renaissance Society (1 June 1991).
The Body . The Society.
ISBN
9780941548236 .
^ Haha: Everyday Matters , University of Chicago Press, 2007.
^ Nikolovska, Lira; Ackermann, Edith; Cherubini, Mauro (2008).
"Exploratory Design, Augmented Furniture?" . In Pierre Dillenbourg; Jeffrey Huang; Mauro Cherubini (eds.). Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Collaborative Work and Learning . Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series. Vol. 10. Springer. pp. 156–157.
ISBN
978-0387772349 .
^
"The Squeeze Chair Project" . Wendy Jacob. Retrieved 7 February 2014 .
^ "Wendy Jacob and Jin Lee at Chicago Project Room,"
Art in America , 87.4 (April 1999), page 150.
^
Wendy Jacob: The Squeeze Chair Project , Kemper Art Museum .
^ Patti Sowalsky; Judith Swirsky (1999).
On Exhibit: The Art Lover's Guide to American Museums . On Exhibit Fine Art Publications.
ISBN
9780789204547 .
^
"The Squeeze Chair Project Wendy Jacob with Temple Grandin" . MIT List Visual Arts Center . 13 January 2022.
^ Krannert Art Museum (24 July 1997).
Wendy Jacob (April 25-June 15, 1997) . Krannert Art Museum.
OCLC
794643619 – via Open WorldCat.
^
"Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future" . creative-capital.org .
External links
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