Mara's Artist

Patrick Jacobs

Fairy Ring with White Clover ($10,000)

His work exist in a realm of some kind of ephemeral sublimity

the works are small, pulling viewers in and creating an intimate moment between viewer and the art. This piece requires more than just one glimpse

May be overlooked at first, but once discovered could be a piece of popular interest

Because there is a sense of discovery the subject matter fair rings matches the viewing experience in the sense that its unexpected presence can be kind of whimsical

Francesca Woodman

P.21, House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1978 ($5,500)

I think by obscuring her own identity in her pictures Woodman's work hints at the sometimes fleeting nature of identity or perhaps the fluidity of identity

Her sincere and honest portrayal of self explores in a way the idea of women sexuality as an object of beauty or spectacle. She is able to capture palpable mood in her photos, giving the viewer a sense of something dark, slightly uneasy or unsettling about these precarious situations. Like Jenny Morgan, her work comments and explores the psychology of the portrait. Exploring this idea of two selves, existing as artist and subject, as someone, but no one in particular.

Sebastiaan Bremer

I like that Bremer's work brings the evidence of the hand in a dominant way combing the mechanized photographic process with the organic process of drawing

He creates a trail of memory on each print creating a scene which emerges and submerges. His work obscures time and place and creates for the viewer a new reality

There is a sense of vastness created with the juxtaposition of his hand drawn lines against the faint figures found in the image creating this sense of being engulfed or consumed or simply becoming a part of something

The work addresses ideas of new realities and conveys emotions that fit with changing worlds, a persistent process for the college student