nicholas b jacobsen

March 30 - April 29, 2022

nicholas b jacobsen is an SUU Art & Design Department Alum (2012), multimedia artist, & creative researcher who uses an entanglement of installation, performance, video, ceramics, sculpture, writing, and digital collage as means of self & societal critique in an attempt to rebuild their individual philosophy and reality separate from their southern Utah LDS upbringing. Their research is slow, embodied, and place-based, emphasizing the time and attention it takes to develop a lasting, visceral understanding. They examine the unsettling connections through which 7 generations of jacobsen’s familial ties came to occupy Nuwu (Southern Paiute) lands and religiously driven ideals of hetero-patriarchy. By balancing and altering objects, imagery, and text from their ethnically LDS experience they aim to highlight myths of innocence associated with the formation of the western United States, bring attention to its notions of cultural and racial supremacy, and the resulting violence those myths attempt to conceal.