The University of Hawaii at Hilo Art Department announces that Oliver Jackson is the artist-in-residence for the first six weeks of the spring semester as the department’s 2012 Howard and Yoneko Droste Visiting Research Fellow. Jackson is a professor emeritus
The University of Hawaii at Hilo Art Department announces that Oliver Jackson is the artist-in-residence for the first six weeks of the spring semester as the department’s 2012 Howard and Yoneko Droste Visiting Research Fellow.
Jackson is a professor emeritus at California State University in Sacramento, having been honored with the title in 2002. He is an internationally known painter and sculptor.
In support of the UHH Visiting Artist Program and Voices in a Nation Project, Jackson will give a free public lecture on the topic “Collaborative Making” from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, in UCB, room 127.
During the six-week residency, Jackson will focus primarily on new research in his highly acclaimed area of expertise, painting.
He is scheduled to teach a special topics course, Art 494: Considering Blues and Jazz, a one-credit cross-disciplinary seminar that will address reflections on the idiom with constructive explorations in media associated with literature, performance and visual arts.
Support is from the Howard and Yoneko Droste bequest; the Hawaii Community Foundation/Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund; Hawaii Council for the Humanities, UH-Hilo Art, English and Performing Art departments; the UHH Student Activities Council and the Friends of UHHART.
For more info, contact Professor Michael Marshall, chairman of the UHH Art Department, at mdmarsha@hawaii.edu or 974-7524. For disability accommodations: 933-0816 (V), 933-3334 (TTY) or uds@hawaii.edu.
Bruce Guenther, curator of contemporary art at the Seattle Art Museum, has described Jackson as “a painter of rare intelligence and witâ creating mature works in a content-charged, imagist style well before the current fashion for such painting … [and] celebrates the magic of beings coming together as he explores the spiritual nature of that contact in dense fields of emotional color (1982).”
In 2000, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard sponsored a 10-week residency for Jackson, who worked in collaboration with musician Marty Ehrlich to create a sacred space dedicated to the memory of Julius Hemphill of the World Saxophone Quartet. For this collaboration, he created six large canvases which he combined with sculptures and other objects for “Duo,” which remained on view at the Carpenter Center Cert Gallery until early in 2003.
Solo exhibitions by Jackson include the Seattle Art Museum; St. Louis Art Museum; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif.; UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif.; DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, Calif.; and Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, Calif. His works also have been included in group exhibitions at numerous museums around the world.
His works are in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The High Museum, Atlanta; New Orleans Museum of Art; The Oakland Museum; Orange County Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Jose Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum and others.
