• Jill Jacobs is a visual artist and writer. Her sculptures are created using rods of steel. She cuts, bends, and rolls the metal into organic curves, then assembles and welds them into abstract forms.

    The shapes Jill creates are all bent and rolled with manual tools and without the use of heat. This intentional process restriction has created her shape language. Her exclusive use of narrow lines of steel naturally introduces negative space, and requires repetitious pattern creation to build density.

    Jill’s work explores the intersections of rigid-delicate, masculine-feminine, industry-nature, as well as universal human experiences and life’s momentous thresholds. Her creative practice enables a dialogue between her muses, the tangible, and the metaphysical.

  • Jill is a Boston based artist. She was born and raised in Massachusetts and is third generation Jewish-American. She creates sculptures in her home metalworking studio. Her works have been shown throughout Massachusetts, in Watertown, Marblehead, Newburyport, Lowell, and Salem.

    Jill’s avidity for art developed at a young age, grown from inquisitiveness and a transportive imagination. Throughout her youth and early adulthood, Jill explored over 40 visual media, with inclinations toward pen & ink, photography, and wire. She also practiced dance, wrote songs on guitar, and attended New England Young Writers’ Conference.

    She received a Bachelor of Fine Art, with a concentration in sculpture and photography, and a minor in philosophy. Her early sculptural work consists of 100 uniquely shaped steel vessels, from which her visual vocabulary developed.

    Jill is visually inspired by the works of Isamu Noguchi and Barbara Hepworth. Their exploration of organic forms, surface texture, negative space, and strong silhouettes have influenced her work. Her sculptures are also in conversation with writers and philosophers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson.

    Jill is also an accomplished visual designer, photographer, and has a dedicated writing practice in poetry and non-fiction.

  • Exhibitions
    2025 Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay: 25 Years and Counting, Winfisky Gallery & outdoor installation, Salem State University, Salem, MA
    2025 Open Your Mind, Till Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
    2024 Thread, Sculpture at Maudslay, Newburyport, MA (collaboration with Rebekah Lord Gardiner)
    2024 Sculpture 2024, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA
    2024 Variations, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA, 2nd place award
    2023-2024 Eighth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA
    2023 Fracture, Sculpture at Maudslay, Newburyport, MA
    2022 Intersect, Sculpture at Maudslay, Newburyport, MA (collaboration with Rebekah Lord Gardiner)
    2015 Lynn Sharpe Honors Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
    2015 Art in the Garden, Clark Garden, Newark, DE, 1st place award
    2014 The Meaning of Light, Kitchen Gallery, Wilmington, DE
    2013 Art in the Garden, Clark Garden, Newark, DE
    2012 Passanten, LoBe Gallery, Berlin, Germany

    Publications
    2023 Making Problems to Solve Podcast: Cut, Bend, Weld. Persist (S1 E75)
    2015 Best of Photography, Photographer’s Forum

    Awards & Grants
    2024 2nd Place Award, Variations, juried exhibition, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA
    2015 1st Place Award, Art in the Garden, juried exhibition, Newark, DE
    2015 Finalist, Best of Photography, Photographer’s Forum

    Education
    2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Delaware, concentration in Sculpture and Photography, minor in Philosophy