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The paintings by Blinn Jacobs exhibited here are from her recent "Overtones-Undertones" series and the "Counterpoise" group that preceded it.
The "Overtones-Undertones" works are monochromatic paintings that, when looked at close-up or in particular light, reveal an "undertone" of incised lines on some paintings, and on others an "overtone" when oil pastel is used. Parallel lines in rows, grids or diagonals are seemingly etched into the surface, and a painting that appears smooth and monochromatic when viewed from one position can appear as quadrants of different values divided by parallel lines when viewed from another (see "Rotating in Ochre" for an example). When they are shown in groups, both the colors and the incised lines of the paintings reverberate with each other.
In the "Counterpoise" paintings the two-dimensional shape is derived from a bisected octahedron. The relationship of two colors is explored as they form a third transparent color in the shape of a rhombus. The paintings can be hung in several different orientations.
Blinn Jacobs attended Yale University School of Art, studying sculpture with Erwin Hauer, and the University of Pennsylvania, studying painting with Robert Slutzky. She has executed public commissions (see her biography) and has had solo exhibitions at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (1999) and Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany (2000), amongst others.
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