Tag: Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson works experimentally across mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, making for ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved. Similarly built up through layers of pure acrylic, Jackson’s recent works are partially structured with produce bags, rods, paper fragments, peanut shells, bamboo bells and leather string. Her “environmental abstractions” dispense with the canvas, allowing the paintings to move off the wall and exist within the space of the viewer.