Laura Jacobson

Human brain MRIs, micro organisms, DNA, topography, script, math, industrial gadgetry are sources Laura Jacobson uses to explore the cultural terrain between art and science, technology and matter, living structures and geometric abstraction. Jacobson earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2003) and a BA from Stanford University (1989). She worked as a journalist for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers before turning her attention to art in the early 1990s. Since 2004 she has maintained a studio in Palo Alto, CA, working as a ceramic artist and printmaker. Her works can be found in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad, including a permanent installation of Brain Scapes at Stanford University.

Visit her website: www.laurajacobson.com

Read an article about her work in Palo Alto Pulse.

Digital Sediment III, 2015, Ceramic & stains mounted on wood, 30h x 48w x 1.5d, Inspired by MRIs of the human brain and stamped repeatedly with pressings from industry and technology (circuit boards, auto parts, product detritus), these clay wall sculptures highlight the plasticity and impressionability of mind

Vessels, 2015, Ceramic & stains mounted on wood, 22h x 9w x 6d

Where We Have Always Lived, 2015, Ceramic & stains mounted on wood, 50h x 65w x 1.5d, An architectural silhouette, mirrored, repeated, and striated with industrial stampings and earthen pigments is composed to break up space and heighten motion