Daniel Cabrillos Jacobsen: Wild White Dogs, They Will Take Me Away

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.

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.