Alex Jackson

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Alex Jackson, The Ambassador of Additivity, 2021
Alex Jackson, The Ambassador of Additivity, 2021

Alex Jackson’s (b. 1993, Milwaukee, WI) practice involves the development of a continually expanding universe, where recurring characters traverse an entangled ecology of color, shadow, form, flatness, and geography, in an effort to find freedom in the building of a new language. Jackson plays with the foundations of perception and meaning encouraging the viewer to question our own observations. Creating a strange and surreal world, the artist brings to focus ideas of placelessness and transition, questioning the metaphorical boundaries of economics, stereotypes, and categorization. Jackson challenges us to question what is actually present versus what we are shown.

 

Jackson’s works are in the collections of the de Young Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has exhibited at institutions including Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, and Chazen Museum of Art. Jackson has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and New American Paintings. He has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Norfolk, and the Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House. Jackson has an MFA from Yale University, and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recent presentations include FOG Design + Art 2024 presenting his Earthgrazer series, Art Basel, Basel, and the exhibition In Their Hands at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco.
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