Alex Jackson

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.

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Summertime...

Wesaam Al-Badry, Kevin Cole, Dewey Crumpler, Alex Jackson, Wycliffe Mundopa, Gordon Parks, and Raelis Vasquez

8 Jul - 25 Aug 2023

Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce Summertime..., a cross-generational and multi-cultural exhibition featuring Wesaam Al-Badry, Kevin Cole, Dewey Crumpler, Alex Jackson, Wycliffe Mundopa, Gordon Parks, and Raelis Vasquez. Works...

Transcontinental Dialogues

20 Jan - 30 Apr 2022

Jenkin Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, is thrilled to present Transcontinental Dialogues, featuring the work of Dewey Crumpler, Wadsworth Jarrell, Alex Jackson, Blessing Ngobeni, and Raelis Vasquez. The exhibition will be...

Alex Jackson

Chrysalis

11 Sep - 20 Nov 2021

Alex Jackson’s first solo exhibition in New York, Chrysalis, marks a significant turning point for his practice and development. Emerging from the expanding narrative space he has developed, this body of work explores many propositions set forth over the past six years. Jackson has gained a new sense of clarity. The ethos of his practice is committed to maintaining an expansive and emancipatory space both for the formal conditions of the work, as well as for the intellectual and social imagination. Chrysalis is a new space, engaged in ideas around the fantastic and speculative storytelling. Jackson considers how the methods of world building have opened new ways for him to think about the formal and conceptual conditions of image-making. His imaginative spaces are inspired by history, strategies of liberation and his own experiences. Jackson’s world is not reliant on systems of dominance. A Chrysalis: the shell, the condition the being – enclosed into a single term, it is a stage of transformation from one form to another.

Art Basel | Miami Beach

Miami, FL

6 - 10 Dec 2023

Jenkins Johnson Gallery will participate in Art Basel Miami Beach, December 8 - 10, 2023 Booth B31. We will feature artists that explore social and political issues of the African Diaspora by connecting past and current moments: Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Wadsworth Jarrell, Gordon Parks, Ming Smith, Patrick Alston, Adrian Burrell, Dewey Crumper, Lisa Corinne Davis, Violet Fields, Alex Jackson, Blessing Ngobeni, Gregory Rick, Enrico Riley, and Raelis Vasquez. Jenkins Johnson Gallery will be participating in the Kabinett sector with a solo presentation of works on paper by Mary Lovelace O'Neal, featuring her iconic Lampblack (1970's) and Desert Women (1990's) series. In the Lampblack drawings she layers black charcoal and pastel, allowing slivers of negative space to invade the surface. These drawings speak to her affair with an "uncluttered minimalist viewpoint", invoking both a cultural and aesthetic sentiment. In Desert Women series, Lovelace O'Neal portrays garments worn in the Sahara Desert in Egypt and the Atacama Desert in Chile. She studied with master printmaker James Lesene Wells and at The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Lovelace O'Neal creates based on feeling and perception, forming moments of fleeting light. Her work is in museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum, DeYoung Museum, and Brooklyn Museum. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Spring 2024.