Coulter Jacobs: In The Direction Of The Beginning

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Scorpion Front Publishing proudly presents Coulter Jacobs: In the Direction of the Beginning, a noir descent into the world of a painter whose work feels at once familiar and essential.

Born in LA, Jacobs lives and works in San Pedro. By day, a Water Utility Worker for the LADWP. By every other hour, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges painting, sculpture, and writing. That balance of creative devotion and working-class discipline runs through everything he makes. Drawing on years spent inside tattoo culture, Jacobs brings an authentic eye to traditional tattoo imagery, honoring its language while filtering it through noir and abstraction to arrive somewhere entirely his own.

After losing his studio and archive to a fire in 2017, Jacobs rebuilt from the ground up. What emerged is a body of work about endurance, memory, and the enduring act of creation.

A hardback, case bound limited edition. Over 380 pages of drawings, photographs, paintings, and ephemera.

Now preselling. Ships holiday 2026 (expected November, subject to change).