Colter Jacobsen

Acrylic and pencil drawings, installations and photographs of San Francisco-based artist Colter Jacobsen are intricate mosaics of recollections. His practice revolves around memories, ranging from depictions of his personal life to short texts explaining how his paintings came into being to the usage of found objects that were lost, given away or forgotten. The strategy of browsing the streets and looking for souvenirs of someone’s existence shows Jacobsen’s interest in the Bay Area “Mission School”, a movement that emerged in the late 1990s and celebrated the urban cluster of culture. Jacobsen began his practice by copying found postcards and photographs of joyful gay men squeezing into a diner booth or of over-exposed silhouettes amidst the summer trees onto old, distressed paper. Then, by making a copy of a copy and placing them next to each other, he demonstrates the ambivalence of the process of fading in both human memory and artistic process. Intricately powered by gay semiotics and narrative, Jacobsen’s art feels like having a friend with whom you can share everything. ...

Corvi-Mora is a contemporary art gallery based in Kennington, South London. The gallery currently represents over 30 artists, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Alvaro Barrington, Jennifer Packer, Brian Calvin, Tomoaki Suzuki and established international artists such as Turner Prize nominees Roger Hiorns and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Corvi-Mora was founded by Tommaso Corvi-Mora in 2000 at premises in London's Warren Street after the closure of the gallery Robert Prime which he founded in partnership with Gregorio Magnani in 1995. Corvi-Mora moved to a space on Kempsford Road in 2004 with the contemporary art gallery greengrassi. Notable exhibitions include Sorrow for A Cipher by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in 2016, Roger Hiorns in 2004 and 2015, The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State by Liam Gillick in 2007, Rachel Feinstein in 2007, and Richard Hawkins in 2009. ...