#duron jackson

Duron Jackson Tripping 2008 Painting 5' x 9' Blackboard Paint on Paper

The works in Jackson’s first solo show in Manhattan include his iconic life-size body prints, blackboard paintings, and the domino sculpture, Ruminations Chair.   In the past year Duron Jackson has been featured in a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum, in Mickalene Thomas's Better Days installation at Art Basel, and in the AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum.   Press has included N.Y. Times, Studio Visit, and Modern Painters among others. Holland Cotter referred to Jackson’s Brooklyn Museum show as “a lean, strong, subtle installation”. Christina von Messling wrote “The intense richness of his creative energy is superbly counterbalanced by his refined and sophisticated mind”.   His Fulbright Research Scholarship, African Roots in Contemporary Art Practices in the Diaspora, investigates materials, processes and iconography of Africa in the western hemisphere, with exhibitions in São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia.   Jackson received his Masters of Fine Art in Sculpture from Bard College in 2010, and his Bachelors in Visual Arts from SUNY Empire State College in New York in 2004. Jackson is a New York based artist living in Brooklyn.   For inquiries, please call the gallery for information about Duron Jackson's work.   Copyright © 2013 Gallery138, All rights reserved.

Brookie Maxwell

"Gallery 138 is happy to share Duron Jacksons Studio visit interview. Please come see his work at the Gallery 138 Armory Art Week event opening March 9 and running through March 26"

★ Brooklyn Museum: ‘Raw/Cooked: Duron Jackson’ (closes on Sunday) As part of the museum’s initiative for showing work of under-known Brooklyn artists, Duron Jackson, based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, has produced a lean, strong, subtle installation linking the historical African slave trade with the present incarceration of African Americans in the United States. A large chair — A throne? An easy chair? An electric chair? — made of stacked-up dominoes sits in the center of the space, surrounded by drawings, seemingly abstract, of prison floor plans. The whole black-and-white ensemble is surveilled by a larger-than-life-size 1928 bronze bust by Malvina Hoffman, “Senegalese Soldier.” An image of a black combatant from an African country that was a prime source of slaves, he is here both guard and captive. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. 

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