Richard Jackson (artist)
| Richard Jackson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1939 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Performance art |
| Notable work | The Maid's Room / The Dining Room 2007 |
Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 in Sacramento. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.
He studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959–1961 and taught Sculpture and New Forms at UCLA Los Angeles 1989 - 1994.
Since the 1970s Jackson has developed in his work an interrogation of painting that combines conceptual procedures, humour and extreme disorder. He expands the activity of painting, abandons its traditional instruments for machines, vehicles and everyday objects. For this reason he has been referred to as a Neo-Dadaist.
Jackson has brought the material dimensions of painting to extremes. "Big Ideas" from 1981 consisted of hundreds of painted canvases stacked into a sphere of 5 meters in diameter. His exhibition, The Maid's Room / The Dining Room (2007) is a tribute to Marcel Duchamp's last major work: Etant donnés.
In 1999 he exhibited at the 48th Venice Biennale.[1]
Jackson's recent solo exhibitions include,'The Little Girl’s Room', David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, (2011) and 'Accidents in Abstract Painting', The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA, (2012). The latter saw Jackson fly and crash a radio-controlled, model military plane with a fifteen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, into a twenty-foot wall that read “accidents in abstract painting.” The spectacle, free and open to the public, took place at Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco. In 2013, he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art.[2]
Exhibitions
2013
- Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA / S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2012
- Richard Jackson: Accidents in Abstract Painting, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
2011
- The Little Girl’s Room, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2010
- Richard Jackson, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
- Richard Jackson – Big Pig, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
- Richard Jackson: Red Room/Green Room, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
2009
- The Laundry Room, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
2007
- The Maid's Room / The Dining Room, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
- Yvon Lambert Gallery, The War Room, New York NY
2006
- Richard Jackson: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2005
- Beer, Deer, Bear, Parisa Kind Gallery, Francfurt, Germany
- The Pink Empire, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
2004
- Unusual Behaviour, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
- Dick's Pictures, Haswellediger & Co Gallery, New York, USA
- The Three Bears, Foundation 20 21, New York, USA
2003
- Accidents in Abstract Paintings, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
2002
- Senn Gallery, Vienna, Austria
- Richard Jackson, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Project Room)
- BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1998
- Deer Beer, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
- De Nada – One Man Show, Art Jonction, Nice, France, (March, Stuttgart)
1997
- Paint Ball, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA
1994
- Wall Painting / Room Installation, Galerie zur Kastanienallee, Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland
1988
- Richard Jackson: Installations 1970-1988, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX[3]
References
- ↑ carol Vogel, The New York Times, June 14, 1999.
- ↑ Christopher Knight, "Art review: 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' shows life", Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2013.
- ↑ Helfenstein, Josef. (2010-01-01). Art and activism : projects of John and Dominique de Menil. Houston :: Houston :. ISBN 9780300123777.