Henry Jackson: Shifting Ground

Henry Jackson Shifting Ground

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Henry Jackson Shifting Ground

April 8 - May 14, 2022

Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com cover: Untitled #106-22, 2022, oil and mixed media on canvas over panel, 58 x 48 inches

Henry Jackson | Shifting Ground Throughout his three-decade career, Henry Jackson’s remarkable use of layered gesture, spirited color, and energetic composition have ranked him among the most accomplished abstract expressionist painters working today. Known for his skillful combination of abstraction with alternating degrees of figuration, Jackson has constantly honed fresh approaches to his subject, the elemental relationship between the figure and its environment. In an exhibition of recent work, Jackson references more abstractly the sensory experiences of the body and the natural world.

Working in oil and mixed media, Jackson’s saturated colors are generously applied through energetic brush sweeps, splashes, and glancing dashes of pigment. Awash in rich texture, Jackson’s canvases and works on paper are alit with the implied rush of sensory detail; invoking the extraordinary beauty and scintillating vigor of color as if seen through a kaleidoscope.

As a result, these recent Jackson paintings employ texture, color, and motion to capture ambiguous references to the body, or possibly to the forces of life around us—water, clouds, or even of light filtering through leaves.

“Rather than a body of work disclosing one cohesive story, each work reveals a multitude of many readings and sensations,” Jackson writes in a statement accompanying the exhibition. “Each canvas is a complete experience and unique journal of an intense and all-consuming interaction, of a scale both grand and intimate.”

Born in San Francisco, Henry Jackson studied Fine Art and Environmental Design at San Francisco State University and the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Jackson’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Auchenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California; The de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, California, and the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; among others.

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Untitled #73-22, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 36 x 36 inches

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Ardent Sediment, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 60 x 60 inches

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Untitled #74-22, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 36 x 36 inches 6

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Oleada, 2020 oil and mixed media on panel 12.25 x 12 inches 8

Untitled #25-22, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 12 x 12 inches 9

Untitled #48-22 (Landform Series), 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 24 x 24 inches

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Free to Roam, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 60 x 60 inches 12

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Untitled #51-22, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 24.75 x 26.75 inches 14

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Intersection #2, 2022 oil and mixed media on paper 27.25 x 19.5 inches framed: 34.5 x 26 inches 16

Intersection #1, 2022 oil and mixed media on paper 26 x 19.75 inches framed: 34.5 x 26 inches 17

Untitled #78-19, 2019 oil and mixed media on canvas over panel 40.25 x 38 inches 18

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Untitled #68-17, 2017 oil and mixed media on canvas over panel 36 x 32 inches 20

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Animal Tracks, 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 60 x 48 inches 22

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Untitled #26-20, 2020 oil and mixed media on canvas over panel 12 x 12 inches 24

Untitled #24-22 (Selva Series), 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 12 x 12 inches 25

Untitled #72-22, 2022 oil and mixed media on canvas over panel 40.25 x 38 inches

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Assertion, 2022 oil and mixed on canvas over panel 36 x 36 inches

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Untitled #50-22 (Landform Series), 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 24 x 24 inches

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Untitled #49-22 (Landform Series), 2022 oil and mixed media on panel 24 x 24 inches 32

Henry Jackson EDUCATION 1986-87 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1984-85 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA 1983-84 City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Shifting Ground, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2021 (In) Place, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID 2020 Verdant, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID 2019 Introductions, Westbrook Modern Gallery, Carmel, CA 2018 Sight Becomes Insight, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2017 New Work, Orth Contemporary, Tulsa, OK Red Ivory, large scale video & sound installation, awarded by John & Michele McNellis & San Francisco Zoological Society, San Francisco, CA 2016 Continuum, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2015 Configuration, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID 2014 Halted in Transition, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2013 New Work, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Kingdom Animalia, large scale video & sound installation. Awarded by The Bernard Osher Foundation and the SF Zoological Society, San Francisco, CA New Works, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID 2011 H.A.R.P., Selected works honoring the first recipient of the S.F. Zoo’s Heritage Artist Residency Program.

Cain-Schulte Gallery, S.F., CA 2010 New Works, Cain-Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Fractured Form, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM New Works, esidency at MACA, San Francisco, CA 2008 Descendants, Cain-Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA Introduction, work from 2007 residency, MACA, New York, NY 2007 New Work, Bonhams, New York, NY New Work, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID 2006 Paintings & Drawings, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA 2005 New Paintings, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2004 Raw, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA

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New Works, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA Dualism, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA The Mutilated Figure, Gotham, London, UK Henry Jackson - West Coasting, Broadbent Gallery, London, UK Origins, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Amorphous, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA Elemental, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA New Figurative Work, Richard Witzel Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Expressive Figure, Museum Parc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED AWARDS 2018 Madagascar - Wonder in Peril, special commission, large scale video & sound installation, San Francisco Zoological Society - Barry & Marie Lippman, San Francisco, CA 2016 Red Ivory, special commission, large scale video & sound installation, San Francisco Zoological Society - John & Michele McNellis, San Francisco, CA 2015 Indigo Springs Artist-In-Residence Award. (In conjunction with Monte Azul, Chimirol, Costa Rica) Healdsburg, CA 2013 Full Fellowship Award, Artist-in-Residency, Monte Azul Contemporary Art, Chimirol, Costa Rica (also in 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007) 2012 Kingdom Animalia, Large scale video & sound installation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, San Francisco Zoological Society, San Francisco, CA 2011 Heritage Artist Residency Program, San Francisco Zoological Society, San Francisco, CA 2001 Commission Award, David Bruce Winery, 40th Anniversary Fine Art Label, Limited Estate Vintage Pinot Noir 2000, Los Gatos, CA 1999 Full Fellowship Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Nathan Oliveira Fellowship Award, presented by MMG, San Francisco, CA 1997 Artist-in-Residency, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 1996 "Selections,” Juried Exhibition, ArtSpan, San Francisco, 33 CA

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Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com © 2022 LewAllen Contemporary, LLC 36 Artwork © Henry Jackson