BIO, STATEMENT, GALLERY AFFILIATION
Julian Jackson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
studio: 382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Artist’s statement:
I have been exploring the language of abstract painting for many years led by my sensibility which combines a deeply experiential appreciation of nature, most specifically light, color, and atmosphere, with a fascination with composition, ambiguous spatial relationships, and underlying formal structures.
The content of these paintings flows from my own sense of the movement of consciousness expressed with color and marks standing in for breath, pulse, and the streaming energy of nerves and cellular communication. Painting is a medium of ultimate stillness, but in it I am working toward a reflection and reconciliation of both the restless energy that surges constantly within us and all around us, and the meditative stillness of color, space, structure, and light.
Bio:
Jackson studied painting, printmaking, photography, and performance at Mass. College of Art, Boston, MA, and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. His paintings have been exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Jackson had his fifth solo show with Kathryn Markel Fine Art in NYC in May, 2018. In 2017 he was featured artist at NY Artlab, Umeda Gallery, Hankyu, Osaka Japan, and exhibited at the Chautauqua Institute. In 2015 he had his second solo exhibition with Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA. In 2013 he had his fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Kaysser in Munich Germany, In 2011 he had solo exhibitions at Karan Ruhlen Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA., and Galerie Kaysser in Munich. He has also has solo exhibitions at 490 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Galerie Kaysser, Ruhpolding, Germany.
Recent note worthy museum exhibitions include: Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany, The Icebox, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, The Bau Institute, Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Italy, ParisCONCRET, Paris, France, and Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
Jackson has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Soaring Gardens, and has twice been visiting artist at the Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf Germany. He currently serves on the artists advisory panel for BRIC artspace in Brooklyn, NY, and is a member and former secretary of the American Abstract Artists.
Jackson’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections in the US and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Metropolitan Museum, NY, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
2001 - 2024 Co- Founder, curator and director of Metaphor Contemporary Art/Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Metaphor curated and produced more than 90 exhibitions, participated in several art fairs, and organized a number of arts based fundraisers for political candidates and non-profits in its years of activity.
Websites: www.metaphorcontemporaryart.com , www.metaphorprojects.com
selected collections:
IR+M, Boston, MA
Boston Partners, Boston, MA
Charles Bank, New York City, Boston
Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, MA
Ritz Carlton Hotels, Palm Springs, CA
KPMG International
HBSC Bank
White and Case LLC
The Sundance Corporation, NYC, NY
Swiss Re Capital Bank, NYC, NY
Capitol One Bank
Citibank , NYC, NY
Cantor, Fitzgerald Inc., NYC, NY
Volksbank Rems, Waiblingen, Germany
Wildchild Studios, NYC, NY
Maruca Designs, INC., Boulder, CO
Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
Winston & Strawn LLP, NYC, NY
U.S. Embassy, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
City Center, Las Vegas
Shangri-la Hotel, Shanghai, China
The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
The City of Salzburgh, Austria
The Abbey Resort, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC*
The Metropolitan Museum, NYC*
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC*
Pat Steir, NYC, NY
Steve Markel, VA and FL
and numerous private collections in the US and abroad
*AAA 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio
