Patrick Jacobs (b. 1971, Merced, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Jacobs studied at University of Klagenfurt, Austria and University of West Florida before receiving his MFA Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A kind of pseudo-science or homespun natural phenomena characterizes Patrick Jacobs’ work, whose protagonists are typically at odds with an increasingly anxious and paranoid world. Only in their futile attempt at transcending their reality and achieving the  impossible do they succeed.

Jacobs produces miniature sculptures of hyper-realistic environments embedded into walls and viewed through glass portholes. Viewed at close range, his works are lit from within, revealing themselves with fisheye luminosity. Working with materials like paper, plastic, acrylic gel and metal, Patrick Jacobs constructs three-dimensional landscape dioramas.