Julian Jackson
Artist Statement:
I have been exploring the language of abstract painting for many years guided by a deeply experiential appreciation of nature, most specifically, light, color, and atmosphere, combined with a fascination with composition, ambiguous spatial relationships, and architectural structures. I am engaged with the movement of consciousness. My process involves improvisation with color and marks, evoking breath, pulse, the streaming energy of nerves, cellular communication, the flickering of light on a path or city street.
Painting provides me a means to find a still point of reference in this ebb and flow. For me paintings are destinations, constructs, like gardens or buildings, that allow for a moment to breathe and reflect. In my paintings I am working towards a reconciliation of both that restless energy that surges constantly within us and all around us, and the meditative stillness of color, space, structure and light.
Artist Biography:
Julian Jackson is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Jackson has had numerous solo exhibitions with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC, Galerie Kaysser, Munich, Germany, Chautauqua Institute, NY, HPGRP Gallery, Osaka and Hiroshima, Japan, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany, Karen Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, 490 Gallery, and Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn.
Museum exhibitions include: Haus der Künst, Munich, Germany, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Fellowships include: MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Soaring Gardens, Mirabellgarten, Salzburg, Austria, and Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Germany.
His work is in numerous public and private collections including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Phillips Collection, D.C. , Museum of Modern Art, NYC, New York Public Library, NYC, Whitney Museum, NYC, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, Sloan Kettering, NYC, Capital One, Swiss Re Capital Bank, US Embassies; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Bogota, Columbia.
AAA:
Member Since: 2000
Secretary: 2004 – 2014
Committees: Publications (Chair)
