LINDA JACOBSON,

Los Angeles Times, Robert Pincus, Art Critic

In all Linda jacobson’s paintings and drawings, the viewer is placed in the same position—gazing out of a window partially shrouded by curtains. The analogy here links window to painting, telling us that her art will frame the world and illuminate it. The artist as seer is, of course a familiar role and often one associated with Romantic visionaries. Jacboson assumes this role, but gives it a sentimentalized form, transforming the world into soft forms and sweet pastel yellows, purples and pinks that evoke a vision of innocence.

There are fine passages in some of her compositions. In Distant Memories, she subtly evokes the curve of a woman’s body with curtains lifting gently in a breeze, perhaps infusing the scene with an autobiographic resonance.