1949  Rebecca Reese Jacoby was born in Salt Lake City, Utah where she grew up immersed in the surrounding geography and personal experiences which enhanced her painting development. Rebecca’s Art Career has evolved over five decades with fine art painting and owning a design communication firm.. 1971  Rebecca graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Her emphasis was graphic communication design and photography which impacted her strong sense for symbol, metaphors, bold messaging, and gestural form in her painting approach.  1973  Rebecca started her own communication firm, Jacoby Reese Design, creating high-end branding and integrated communication projects. The design firm continued successfully for the next forty years.  1971- 2025  For over five decades, Rebecca has focused on the mediums of watercolor and acrylic painting. Watercolor offers a rich expedient expression of the moment and Rebecca paints with large brushes and loaded paint for vivid effect. Acrylic paintings have been the natural launching point from the free-flowing medium of watercolor. Jacoby’s large acrylic paintings are actively painted and express spontaneous gestural abstraction. Rebecca is an abstract expressionist. As a full-time Fine Artist, she works out of her studio in Holladay, Utah.  2006  September 11- October 15, Jacoby exhibited a Solo Exhibition at the Patrick More Gallery in Salt Lake City.  2008-2023   Rebecca exhibited in the prestigious Springville Museum of Art Annual Spring Salon Shows,  2011  February 1- April 11, Jacoby exhibited a Solo Show entitled, “the Visitors” at the Kimball Art Museum in Park City, Utah. 2011  April 8 – May 15, In another Solo Exhibit of that year, Rebecca exhibited “Counterparts” at Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah.  2011  September 1- October 31, Jacoby exhibited a Solo Show in the Elaine R Stephens Gallery in Ogden Utah, entitled, “The Histories.” One featured painting was 21 ft. x 10 ft. and composed on an entire wall space. 2015  August 7 – September 28, Rebecca exhibited a Solo Show at the Finch Lane Gallery in Salt Lake City Utah. This exhibit encompassed very large-format acrylic paintings entitled, “Fire Dancers/ Ancestral.” The paintings in this exhibit explored the connections that the artist revealed in emotional, ritual-like dances as well as the spiritual dialogue that exists between the descendents in her history and herself.  Present  Rebecca Reese Jacoby continues her Artist Career painting large-format acrylic paintings, focused on abstract expressionism that is a passionate and unique forum of discovery for the viewer and herself. In her continual discovery process, she explores content, color, form, medium, techniques, and the spontaneity of gestural expression.