Material World | Thomas Jackson Barn Artist Talk

Tuesday, May 19
Open House 12-6pm — Free, no registration needed

Wednesday, May 20
Open House 12-6pm — Free, no registration needed
Artist Talk 6pm — $20 Suggested Donation

Fabric embodies the contradictions inherent to our relationship with the natural world. Woven, stitched and dyed, it carries all the baggage of our consumption-based culture. Yet as human-made materials go, it conforms beautifully with nature. It is flexible, soft and deeply responsive to wind, light and other natural forces. Exposed to the elements, it performs a visual negotiation between the artificial and the natural—between belonging and opposition—that echoes our own uneasy relationship with the environment.

Thomas Jackson’s installation at Twenty Summers will recreate that tension in an indoor space. Made from silk and other recycled textiles, the piece’s fluid, ephemeral form will exist in simultaneous harmony and contrast with the solid, human-made geometry of Hawthorne Barn.

was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York working first in book publishing, then as a magazine editor. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting Garry Winogrand-inspired street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today. Jackson’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Wired and elsewhere.  

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