{"id":105812,"date":"2026-09-11T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=105812"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:18:53","slug":"how-the-hell-did-i-get-here-jason-jacobson-at-main-library-lower-urban-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/how-the-hell-did-i-get-here-jason-jacobson-at-main-library-lower-urban-room\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Hell Did I Get Here? \u2014 Jason Jacobson at Main Library Lower Urban Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EXHBT_How_The_Hell_Did_I_Get_Here_LUR_Sep_2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-105813\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EXHBT_How_The_Hell_Did_I_Get_Here_LUR_Sep_2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a>Salt Lake City<br \/>\nSeptember 21 \u2013 November 14, 2026<br \/>\nArtist Reception: Saturday, September 26, 3\u20135 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In How the Hell Did I Get Here?, Cottonwood Heights artist Jason Jacobson presents mixed-media paintings that function as oversized journal pages, moving between self-reflection and observations of contemporary society. Drawing on his Gen-X Midwestern upbringing and nearly 30 years as a graphic artist, Jacobson works across abstraction and abstract realism, combining varied materials and processes to explore mortality, fear, loss, mental health, social issues and the search for self-understanding.<\/p>\n<p>For Jacobson, the work favors emotional immediacy over stylistic consistency, embracing what he calls \u201cprogress over perfection\u201d while asking viewers to recognize something of their own experiences in his.<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City Public Library \u2014 Main Library, Lower Urban Room<br \/>\n210 E. 400 South<br \/>\nSalt Lake City, UT 84111<br \/>\n801-524-8200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City<br \/>\nSeptember 21 \u2013 November 14, 2026<br \/>\nArtist Reception: Saturday, September 26, 3\u20135 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In How the Hell Did I Get Here?, Cottonwood Heights artist Jason Jacobson presents mixed-media paintings that function as oversized journal pages, moving between self-reflection and observations of contemporary society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":105813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-salt_lake_area"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-11-15 15:05:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105814,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105812\/revisions\/105814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}