- Wendy Jacob
Wendy W. Jacob (born
March 27 ,1958 ) is an American artist who works as an urban interventionist.Life and work
Wendy Jacob received her bachelor's degree from
Williams College in 1980, and herMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from theArt Institute of Chicago .She has created installations and interventions in social spaces since 1989, and has developed a distinct body of sculptural works which investigate the interface between
architecture and the bodies of the people and animals who inhabit the built environment. Jacob is also a member of theChicago -based collaborative Haha, whose work focuses on the exploration of social positions relative to a particular site, and which has produced over two dozen influential projects since the late 80s. ["Haha: Everyday Matters", University of Chicago Press, 2007.]One of Jacob's collaborations has been the creation of the "Squeeze Chair", inspired by
Temple Grandin 'shug machine . For several years, Jacob has worked with Grandin in developing furniture that squeezes or 'hugs' users. ["Wendy Jacob and Jin Lee at Chicago Project Room," "Art in America", 87.4 (April 1999), page 150.]She has worked as an associate professor of
visual art s at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Exhibitions
Jacob has had solo exhibitions at the
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City) [ [http://www.kemperart.org/exhibits/PastExhibits/WendyJacob.asp "Wendy Jacob: The Squeeze Chair Project", Kemper Art Museum] .] , the Madison Art Center (Madison, Wisconsin , 1999] ), theCleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1998), MIT List Visual Arts Center, theCranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills ,Michigan ,1998), and theKrannert Art Museum (Champaign,Illinois )1997), and many other galleries and institutions in the United States and Europe. Her work resides in the collections ofCentre Georges-Pompidou , Paris, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentre, Poitier, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; and theMacArthur Foundation , Chicago, Illinois.Notes and references
External links
* [http://architecture.mit.edu/people/profiles/prjacob.html MIT.edu] - 'MIT Architecture/People: Wendy Jacob'
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