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Jacob, Mary Jane was born on January 5, 1952 in New York City. Daughter of Elmer J. and Catherine (Marino) Jacob.
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"Eminently readable and extremely meaningful. The contributors tackle essential questions about the relationship of art and life. The book is also very timely, offering a way to approach Buddhism through unexpected channels."--Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
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A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture. The thread of representation ties together the work of the 30 artists included in the book, encompassing such issues as allegory, appropriation, and commodification, the role of the artist, and the functions of authorship and originality in vesting meaning in art. Much of the work is provocative, challenging the way we look at art, the way we talk about it, where we see it, and how we buy it. The development of these issues and their role in shifting the focus of much recent art from insistence on the art as object, to a host of representations is addressed in four essays and a section of "artists' pages." In the first essay, exhibition co-organizer Ann Goldstein discusses the individual artists and points to key issues and methods in their art. The artists themselves are represented by a 60 page portfolio of their works. Designed by the artists, these pages include personal statements, the remarks of others, works made specifically for the book and works using the tools of mechanical reproduction. In the three essays that follow, Anne Rorimer, former Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, traces the roots of recent American art to the development of international conceptualism in the 1960s and early 1970s; Mary Jane Jacob, exhibition co-organizer and MOCA Chief Curator, places the artists within the current trends of European as well as American art; and editor and critic Howard Singerman examines the relationship of recent art to its circle of critics and to the emergence of critical theory. Copublished with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Artists Richard Baim, Thomas Lawson, Judith Barry, Sherrie Levine, Ericka Beckman, Robert Longo, Gretchen Bender, Allan McCollum, Dara Birnbaum, Matt Mullican, Barbara Bloom, Peter Nagy, Troy Brauntuch, Stephen Prina, Sarah Charlesworth, Richard Prince, Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Simmons, Larry Johnson, Haim Steinbach, Ronald Jones, Mitchell Syrop, Mike Kelley, James Welling, Jeff Koons, Christopher Williams, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler
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Jacob, Mary Jane was born on January 5, 1952 in New York City. Daughter of Elmer J. and Catherine (Marino) Jacob.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University Florida, 1973. Master of Arts in art history and museum studies, University Michigan, 1976.
Associate curator modern art Detroit Institute Arts, 1976—1980. Chief curator Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1980—1986, Los Angeles, 1986—1989. Independent curator, since 1989.
Curator Spoleto Festival United States of America, Charleston, South Carolina, since 1991. Professor, chair of sculpture School Art Institute Chicago, since 1999, executive director exhibitions, since 2008. Adjunct faculty Graduate Center Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Progressive director Sculpture Chicago. Consultant Ferguson Fund, Art Institute Chicago, Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. Artist's liaison Office of Surface Mining/United States Department Interior, National Endowment Arts.
Consulting curator Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 1994—1998.
(A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critica...)
("Eminently readable and extremely meaningful. The contrib...)
(Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985.)
Married Russell L. Lewis.