Anticipating Art Basel's return to Miami Beach (1–3 December 2022), Ocula Magazine shares a critical selection of must-see exhibitions across the city's main galleries and institutions.
Kathleen Jacobs: Green Creek
The Bonnier Gallery, 3408 NW 7th Avenue
26 November 2022–4 February 2023
Kathleen Jacobs spent many years painting outside before deciding to incorporate the natural environment as part of her work. In one untitled painting from 1995, an enmeshment of wire and twine tightly enwrap a grey masonite board, prophecising industrial decay.
Jacobs developed her signature frottage style in 1989, when over the course of ten years, the artist wrapped 18 aspen trees with linen and canvas upon which she rubbed layers of oil stick, thus imprinting the textures of their barks onto the fabric, capturing the passage of time.
Green Creek features many of these textured paintings, which transplant nature's imprints into the gallery space, reflecting its gradual dissolution. Equally attesting to humanity's modification of natural environments are clay and porcelain-covered tree trunks, drawings, and prints.