GREGORY JACOBSEN: Palpitating Remains, New Paintings November 30, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 30, 2007 5:00-8:00pm
November 30, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Preview Works: www.zggallery.com/jacobsen.htm

Gregory Jacobsen’s work continues to take root where schadenfreude meets Sigmund Freud. As he delights in the spectacle of failure and the triumph of the id, his work is inspired by what he views as the ridiculousness and uselessness of human vanity, frailty and sexuality. He wallows in the nightmare of aging, disease, deformities and perversions, as he lovingly delineates every wrinkle, mutation and hair-sprouting mole of the deviates that inhabit his work.

Jacobsen’s fourth solo show at Zg Gallery also features new works from his Botanical Heaps series - still life bouquets composed of such disparate elements as muscle tissue, still secreting organs, flora, fauna and various food stuffs, set in romantic landscapes, tenderly gathered into bundles and tied with flowing ribbons.

Gregory Jacobsen: Palpitating Remains will be exhibited at Zg Gallery, Chicago from November 30, 2007 to January 5, 2008. An illustrated artist book accompanies exhibition.

For additional information please contact the gallery 312.654.9900 or visit our website: www.zggallery.com

Official Website: http://www.zggallery.com/jacobsen.htm