I
was born, November 23, 1969, as Patricia Anna Jacob to
John Avis Jacob and Mary LeOra Eckman. My father was a
steelworker and my mother a data entry clerk for a
division of the FBI. I first fell in love with
photography when my father bought a Polaroid
camera.
I grew up
in the wooded marshland areas of Western Pennsylvania.
The area had beautiful large trees that were peaceful and
quieting to the mind, at times they seemed dark and
foreboding. In the spring it was beautiful, bursting full
of blooms from yellow, pink and white dogwood trees. The
marsh areas housed a multitude of spring peepers and
birds, morning noon and night there was music.
I am
interested in recording a deeper psychological reality, a
feeling, an idea, a story, a change, a mystery, a dream,
my imagination.
As a
young child I was afraid of a dream or subconscious
thought I had. I would sleep with the covers pulled up
around my neck, laying awake, trying not to sleep for
fear of what I imagined might happen while I slept. As I
grew a bit older, I understood that my imagination or
subconscious was not something that I should be afraid
of. I grew interested in how people think and began
reading medical studies and journals. I found that our
imagination kicks in where our understanding leaves off,
filling in the blanks to help us make sense of our
surroundings. It is this ambiguity that makes my
photographs interesting, mysterious, romantic, memorable
and at times even haunting.
Exhibitions
2008 "Love is for
Lovely People," Victory Hall, Inc., Jersey City, NJ,
Juried Show
2005 "Florals," Don
Pedro Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Solo Show
2005 "Friends
Between The Bridges," A gathering of Photographers Dumbo
General Store, Brooklyn, NY
1999 "Parsing
Outside In," Cave Gallery, Toned B&W photographic
series, Brooklyn, NY
1999 "Signs, Forms,
systems Converging: Life Emerging, photographic outdoor
installation , Brooklyn, NY
1998 "What Does it
Mean to be Where You Are?," McCarren Park, photographic
installation, Brooklyn, NY
1998 "Dumbo Three,"
Gale Gates et al. Gallery, Industrial Textures, Brooklyn,
NY, Juried Show
1994 "1205 Group
Show," Brooklyn, NY
1992 "In Black
& White," West Hall Gallery, Slippery Rock, PA , Solo
Show
1991 Martha Gault
Gallery, Slippery Rock, PA, Annual juried show
Education
1992 BFA Slippery
Rock University, emphasis in photography, design,
Slippery Rock, PA
1991 - 1992 Studied
under and worked with photographer Don E. Camp
1989 - 1991 Studied
under and worked with photographer Michael Changnon
1991 Studied under
and worked with photographer Judy Dater
1987 Associates
degree in Graphic Arts, Lawrence county Vocational
Technical School, New Castle, PA
