Daniel Cabrillos Jacobsen: Wild White Dogs, They Will Take Me Away
February 6 - March 21, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 5:30 – 8 pm
Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present Wild white dogs, they will take me away, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Atlanta-based artist, Daniel Cabrillos Jacobsen. The exhibition will be on view from February 6 through March 21, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday, February 6th from 5:30-8 pm.
The eight paintings included in Wild white dogs, they will take me away, explore how both personal history and place can shape lived experience and artistic practice. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, and an artist of Danish-Filipino descent, Cabrillos Jacobsen began his artistic training in the Netherlands, and currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his practice are an amalgam of each locale: the quiet melancholy of Denmark, the Dutch tulips, and the visual history of Philippine Modernism shaped by colonial legacies.
In Ice-Dogs, various fabrics piece together the canvas. Smaller, quilted swatches at the bottom of the picture plane come together as an intimate pack of greyhounds assemble on the surface. They move as a unit through a dream-like landscape of glacial mountains. The dogs wander without direction or obligation while looming peaks shape the landscape around them. Roaming from place to place, this is only one stop of a long journey.
A mix of interior and exterior scenes are featured throughout the exhibition. Cabrillos Jacobsen’s imagined interiors often feature doorways, or windows, offering a peek into another realm and blurring the boundaries of inside vs. outside. In I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, a woman lays in bed, looking out a large window to a neighborhood. The window acts as a threshold, where observation, memory and imagination overlap. The composition itself is built through layered applications of material. Process is central to Cabrillos Jacobsen’s practice as he paints, scrapes, and repaints over time so that memory, labor, and revision become embedded in the surface.
Though each piece appears as a carefully composed scene, the images and materials shift over time as an active investigation. In a world craving absolutes, Cabrillos Jacobsen exists in the transient in-between—a reminder that painting can function as a contemplative space where emotional and cultural tensions can be held, rather than resolved.
DANIEL CABRILLOS JACOBSEN (b. 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Atlanta, GA. He earned his BFA from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, The Netherlands) and is currently an MFA candidate at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA). Recent solo exhibitions have been hosted by Municipal Bonds (San Francisco, CA), Durst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague, The Netherlands), and CHAxART (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). He has been featured in group exhibitions with Silverlens (New York, NY), Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Ki Smith Gallery (New York, NY), Durst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague, The Netherlands), Echo Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), and Vera Projektrum (Copenhagen, Denmark). This is the artist 'sfirst exhibition in Boston and first exhibition with the gallery.