The Majestic Theater is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the acclaimed Gettysburg-based artist, Sarah Jacobs. This exhibition of her recent mixed media paintings and collages will be open through November 4, 2026.

Sarah Jacobs is represented in New York City by Fremin Gallery and in Pittsburgh by Zynka Gallery. Her artworks have been exhibited in the U.S. and in Europe and are in public and private collections in the U.S., U.K., and Hong Kong. She has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City, London, Wrocław, Poland and Bristol, U.K., among other cities.

“Sarah Jacobs latest works are dizzying and magnificent. The canvasses layer her paintings, photographs of her paintings on fabric, and photographs of the fabric prints photographed again to create beautiful folds and wrinkles that distort and intensify the natural world. Having these stunning canvasses on display in our gallery coincides with the installation of her forthcoming Mural at the Beyond the Battlefield Museum, and her participation in The People Project which will also be held here at the Majestic later this fall,” said Majestic Executive Director, Brett Messenger.

Exhibition Statement:
In my life and art practice I consider the qualities of separation and oneness. Are we existentially isolated within our separate bodies, are we integral parts of a collective whole that we are only obliquely aware of, or are we simultaneously both? The deep-spaced paintings in the gallery were inspired by my belief that all beings are intrinsically important pieces of a larger whole, like how every jigsaw piece is necessary to create a full image. The deep skies, which represent the world beyond us, are paired with specific foreground imagery (birds, butterflies, etc.) which are depicted with more detail and specificity than their environments, suggesting that we relate to them as individuals. The deep and near are depicted together in overlapping layers that suggest that although we are individual actors playing out our lives, we are part of a larger system which we can only partially understand from our limited vantage points.

The look of the pieces in the gallery were inspired by reading about quantum theory. In this series multiple versions of the same sky or multiple different skies are depicted within one image, suggesting that multiple understandings of reality could be simultaneously valid.

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