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Louisa Wallace Jacobs

"It is her skill as an illustrator and her savvy sense of design combined with a droll sense
of humor which sets her work apart..."
comments from a juror

Jacobs typically creates her surreal and imaginative paintings on gesso-coated paper using acrylics and various dry media. Though mostly representational, they are out of the box of still life, landscape and figure study.

"Pears are subjected to numerous thematic variations and permutations...blending fine pencil and acrylic rendering, the artist inserts the fruit into surreal, whimsical settings. They often serve as a visual foil to vaguely pear-shaped nude Prudence, and a male athlete who interacts with pears as both sports equipment and as absurd, monolithic metaphors." Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times

Her "Native American" series and the "Variations on a Pear" series have been shown at the Carnegie Art Museum, Elverhoy Museum, Ventura County Maritime Museum and the San Bernardino County Museum. The City of Thousand Oaks purchased two of her paintings for their public collection.

The Art Sales & Rental Gallery of the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA) selected her paintings for a group exhibit in 2006.

Prudence Poses with Pears #8 - 27x27 - (framed) Acrylic/pencil
Prudence Poses with Pears #9 - 27x27 (framed) Acrylic/pencil
Precarious Pear #1 - 23x30 (framed) Acrylic
Man On Chair with Bird and Pear - 16x20 (framed) Acrylic
Pears In Bowl - 21x26 (framed)  Acrylic and water crayon on paper

Event #3 - Raising the Pear, Acrylic, pencil, water crayon on paper, 23" x 36" (framed)
Prudence Poses with Pears #5, acrylic/pencil on paper, 28" x 38" (framed)
Sprit Eye #2, acrylic/pen on paper, 25" x 33" (framed)
Pears with Crate