Oliver Lee Jackson's Alchemy Series I, 1975 (right) on exhibit at St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO,
August 2018, on loan from Donald M. Suggs.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings
NEW DATES: April 14–September 15, 2019
Soft opening with musical performance by Marty Ehrlich and Oliver Lake, April 11, 6-9pm;
Artist and musicians in conversation on Friday, April 12, 1pm;
Writers in Conversation: Quincy Troupe and Paul Carter Harrison, May 19, 2pm;
Oliver Lee Jackson and Harry Cooper in Conversation, September 15, 2pm
Read the press release here
nga.gov
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August 2018, on loan from Donald M. Suggs.
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• • COMING UP • •
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings
NEW DATES: April 14–September 15, 2019
Soft opening with musical performance by Marty Ehrlich and Oliver Lake, April 11, 6-9pm;
Artist and musicians in conversation on Friday, April 12, 1pm;
Writers in Conversation: Quincy Troupe and Paul Carter Harrison, May 19, 2pm;
Oliver Lee Jackson and Harry Cooper in Conversation, September 15, 2pm
Read the press release here
nga.gov
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Oliver Lee Jackson's No. 1, 2017 (3.13.17) on back wall at left, Rena Bransten Gallery at Pulse Miami, December 2018
Oliver Lee Jackson's No. 6, 2015 (4.28.15), center, Burning in Water at Untitled Art Fair, Miami, December 2018
"Oliver Lee Jackson: Untitled Original 2.0" at Burning in Water, 507 W. 27th St., New York
Oliver Lee Jackson: Untitled Original
Burning in Water, New York City
Read the review by Chris Cobb: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/11/oliver-jackson-in-new-york-2/
Part 1: May 31—November 1, 2018
Burning in Water, 317 10th Ave., NY
Part 2: September 13–November 1, 2018
Burning in Water, 507 W. 27th Street (@ 10th Ave.)
Reception Thurs. Sept. 27, 6-9pm, live music by Marty Ehrlich
See the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcxaJslYkXQ
Burning in Water
646-981-7696
www.burninginwater.net
Oliver Lee Jackson: Untitled Original 2.0, at Burning in Water, 507 W. 27th Street, New York, Summer 2018. Photo: Weston Wells
"Oliver Lee Jackson: Untitled Original" at Burning in Water, 317 10th Ave., NYC, Summer 2018. Photo by Kristin Reinheimer
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Oliver Lee Jackson: Someplace Else at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 2018.
Photo: Phillip Maisel
Photo: Phillip Maisel
Oliver Lee Jackson: Someplace Else
March 3–April 28, 2018
Rena Bransten Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
415.982.3292 www.renabranstengallery.com
View the exhibition catalogue:
https://issuu.com/renabranstengallery/docs/jackson-digital-catalogue-v3-single?e=32797763/59242765
Read Maria Porges' review on squarecylinder.com:
http://www.squarecylinder.com/2018/04/oliver-lee-jackson-rena-bransten/
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These large scale colorful paintings and intricate works on paper are celebratory in nature and invite us to rejoice in seeing for the sake of seeing. Throughout his over five-decade career, Jackson has continued to explore pictorial and perceptual power, force, and sacred space. While his works contain (often recurring) figures, he circumvents expectations of a narrative. Jackson’s intention is to “get past the eyes” and let the mind travel to a state that is unfamiliar and compelling, allowing the work to unveil itself through time and layer by layer. Through this we discover figurative elements embedded within and inseparable from the field: crouched or lying figures, faces in profile, flowers, silhouetted birds, the cone shape of an eye, or an extended arm with pointing finger. In disengaging these figurative elements from a narrative, we may become open to seeing in a new way, allowing ourselves to get lost within the field, and Jackson continually challenges us to do so. — Rena Bransten Gallery
https://issuu.com/renabranstengallery/docs/jackson-digital-catalogue-v3-single?e=32797763/59242765
Read Maria Porges' review on squarecylinder.com:
http://www.squarecylinder.com/2018/04/oliver-lee-jackson-rena-bransten/
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These large scale colorful paintings and intricate works on paper are celebratory in nature and invite us to rejoice in seeing for the sake of seeing. Throughout his over five-decade career, Jackson has continued to explore pictorial and perceptual power, force, and sacred space. While his works contain (often recurring) figures, he circumvents expectations of a narrative. Jackson’s intention is to “get past the eyes” and let the mind travel to a state that is unfamiliar and compelling, allowing the work to unveil itself through time and layer by layer. Through this we discover figurative elements embedded within and inseparable from the field: crouched or lying figures, faces in profile, flowers, silhouetted birds, the cone shape of an eye, or an extended arm with pointing finger. In disengaging these figurative elements from a narrative, we may become open to seeing in a new way, allowing ourselves to get lost within the field, and Jackson continually challenges us to do so. — Rena Bransten Gallery
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Oliver Lee Jackson: Composed
Works from 1984 to 2016
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
March 19–June 4, 2017
Gallery talk - Sunday, April 9, 2017 - Oliver Jackson with Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Oliver Jackson is a master of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. This exhibition presents a range of works spanning three decades of his artistic production. Jackson’s work is based in figuration, yet there is no narrative. Instead, he creates dynamic relationships — figures with figures, figures with the field — that are evocative and significant.
A constant shifting between field and figuration in his paintings, drawings, and prints creates a pulsating spatial effect, and a zone of feeling that provokes in the viewer a state of being. In any of his chosen media, Jackson’s images meet the viewer with an intensity that presses the physicality of visual experience. Jackson is much concerned with problems of essence and being, a deeply personal investigation through the process of making: making, that is, as experience." — Cathy Kimball, Executive Director, exhibition brochure
A constant shifting between field and figuration in his paintings, drawings, and prints creates a pulsating spatial effect, and a zone of feeling that provokes in the viewer a state of being. In any of his chosen media, Jackson’s images meet the viewer with an intensity that presses the physicality of visual experience. Jackson is much concerned with problems of essence and being, a deeply personal investigation through the process of making: making, that is, as experience." — Cathy Kimball, Executive Director, exhibition brochure
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Oliver Lee Jackson painting on exhibit at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Oliver Lee Jackson's Painting (5.21.95) on exhibit in the mezzanine of the newly redesigned East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September 2016–2017. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Gift of Paul Carter Harrison and Wanda Malone Harrison
