Twelve vibrantly colored abstract paintings by Vermont artist Alan Jacobs are currently on display in the Gifford Medical Center art gallery. The exhibit will run through September 23, 2015, and is free and open to the public.
Jacobs, a retired psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and self-taught artist, describes his process as being “more determined by a conversation between fingers, paint, canvas, and unreflective thought and impulses than by any conscious ideas.”
After moving to Vermont several years ago, he began to paint at the suggestion of his artist daughter. He started working with pastels, but moved on to oil on canvas. Jacobs says that he trusts the viewer to connect and react to the recurrent colors and images in his work in their own unique way.
Jacobs’ work was displayed earlier this year in VTC’s Hartness Library.
