April 12-May 5, 2007
Reception Thursday April 12, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk)

Opening Aril 12th at LACDA, Kathryn Jacobi will show a new body of fully integrated drawn, painted, and photographic images she calls 'Digital Hybrids.' 'Hybrids' are images drawn directly on the computer screen combined with images from her own paintings and photographs, to achieve an aesthetic integrity and complexity that would be almost impossible to accomplish in another medium.

Painting is, by definition, artifice. In digital photography everything is subject to change, reinterpretation, or just plain deceitfulness. Jacobi brings her images, though created digitally, back into the realm of art-- or artifice--- by making them totally unreal and metaphoric rather than literal or photographic. The photographic elements are used only to make the artifice more involving. For instance, "Elephant" is composed largely of images of antique Santos which function more as surface articulation and emotional underpinning than as photography.

In whatever medium she works, the themes remain consistent: Jacobi explores the nature of being human, threatened by the complex realities of the external world and the urgent demands of our inner lives.

Source: Los Angeles Center For Digital Art

CONTACT: Rex Bruce, Director
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Website:  http://www.lacda.com