Suzanne Jackson (artist)

Suzanne Jackson (artist)
Suzanne Jackson (artist)
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Suzanne Jackson (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1944)^[1]^[2] nyɛla Americanima lihigu nucheeni baŋda, "poet", wa wara n-ti pahi shikuru baŋda. O tumanima nyɛla din be "museums and galleries" din be dunia zaa. Tum yuuni 1960s bahigu, Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa piligi nucheeni baŋsim tuma ŋɔ ka nyɛ ŋun lahi wuhiri niriba o tuma ŋɔ

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

Jackson nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1944 tiŋ yuli booni Saint Louis, Missouri.^[1]^[2] O daŋ nyɛla ban daa labi San Francisco, California saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ chira awɔi.^[1] Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa be San Francisco hali ni o yuma anii saha din daa niŋ ka o labi Fairbanks, Alaska bin din gbaai yuuni 1952 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1961.^[3] O daa naai la Monroe Catholic High School yuuni 1961.^[3] O ni daa pori ka bɛ Alaska, o daa nyɛla ŋun daa be National Audubon Society ka di daa che ka o baŋ binshɛŋa o tuma ŋɔ ni ka daa na nyɛ zaɣ'poli .^[4] Ŋun daa nyɛ tuuli African American ŋun chaŋ National 4-H Congress din be Chicago yuuni 1960 ka dizuɣu daa che ka o nya sɔŋsim chaŋ collagɛ.^[3]

Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ San Francisco State University (SFSU) n-ti bɔhim "art and ballet" zaa ka daa deei BA degree in painting.^[5] O nyɛla ŋun daa tum San Francisco State University ni San Francisco Bay yaɣili nucheeni baŋdiba mini karimbanima kamani Charles White.^[6] Din daa niŋ ka o be SFSU, Jackson daa niŋ la e "campus art gallery" ka daa wuhi nucheeni baŋsim bɔhimbu yaɣili St. Stephen's Catholic School.^[5]

O nyɛla ŋun daa lahi nya MFA degree yuuni 1990 shikuru yuli booni School of Drama, Yale University.^[5]

Theater and costume design

Jackson nima shɛŋa nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

BLUES ROOM, Realto Theatre, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, Georgia ka di nyɛ din daa piligi Theatre of the First Amendment, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia, 1997
THE SNOW QUEEN, The John F. Kennedy Center, Scenic mini Costume design zaŋ n-ti touring company, 1996–98
CHILDREN OF THE SUN, The John F. Kennedy Center, Costume design, 1996–98
Scenographer at St. Mary's College of Maryland, (Tartuffe, Fefu and Her friends, The Physicists, The Bigger Picture, Happy End, Etta Jenks, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe) 1994-96
STAMPING, SHOUTING, AND SINGING HOME, Mark Taper Forum,1993
BOSEMAN AND LENA at the Philadelphia Drama Guild 1990
PERICLES and DAYLIGHT IN EXILE at Yale Repertory Theatre 1990
ROSE OF THE RANCHO, El Teatro Campesino, 1989
all costumes for Barbara Feldman & Dancers, 1988–96
THE WINTER'S TALE and MACBETH at California Shakespeare Festival
designs for Gus Solomons, Company Dance, Jennifer Muller/The Works

Teaching

2014–2016, Adjunct Professor of Foundation Studies, Drawing, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
2013–2014, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Sabbatical Replacement History I & II; African American Art History, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia
2009–2013, Adjunct Professor of Painting (eLearning), Graduate Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
1996–2009, Professor of Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
1994–1996, Scenographer and assistant professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland
1982–1985, Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department, the Elliott‑Pope Preparatory School, (bɛ daa na booni li la Desert Sun School), Idyllwild, California.
1972, Stanford University (summer), Stanford, California
1970, dance and crafts instructor, Watts Tower Art Center, Watts, California

Exhibitions

2024- "Whitney Biennial 2024: Even better than the real thing March 20-August 11, 2024
2019–2020 – Suzanne Jackson: News!, November 21, 2019—January 25, 2020, Ortuzar Projects, New York City, New York.^[7]
2019 – Life Model: Charles White and His Students, February 16–September 19, 2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California.^[8]^[6]
2019 –Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, June 28–October 6, 2019, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia^[9]
2018 – Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, September 14, 2018 – February 3, 2019, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City^[10]Tɛmplet:Better source needed
2018 – West by Midwest November 17, 2018 – January 27, 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.^[11]
2017 – Friends of African American Art Small Works, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia.
2016 – 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of African American History and Culture, Los Angeles, California
2016 – Reflections of the Self: Selections from the Permanent Collection, California African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2015 – SEEME/NY, SCOPE, ART BASEL, Miami, Virtual Gallery
2013 – Birdmusic, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, Georgia.
2013–2014 – Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts.^[12]
2012 – Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, MoMA PS1, New York, New York.^[12]
2011 – Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, California.
2011 – Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California.^[13]^[12]
2011 – Places of Validation, Art and Progression, The Mural Conservancy Virtual Gallery,(CAAM) California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California.
2010 – Lighter Than Usual, Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, Danville, Virginia.
2010 – CFAC & Friends- Small Works Exhibition, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, Georgia.
2010 – 16th Annual Telfair Museum Art Fair, Savannah, Georgia.
2010 – SPILL, Creative Force Artist Collective, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, Georgia.
2010 – ‘5 x 7’ Art Show, Hospice Savannah, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia.
2009 – Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia.
2009 – Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Richards and Westbrook Galleries, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 – Gallery 32 and Its Circle, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. (Curated by Carolyn Peter and Damon Willits)
2008 – Suzanne Jackson: Abstraction Today, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia. (Curated by Michael Preble)
2007 – Suzanne Jackson, Monoprints: The Colored Garden, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, California
2007 – Recent American Watercolors, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia. (Curated by Michael Preble)
2005 – Suzanne Jackson: Paintings and Monoprints, Off The Wall Gallery at The Marshall House, Savannah, Georgia.
2005 – Monoprints and Drawings, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, Georgia.
2002 – La Minime's Galerie, La Rochelle, France.
2000 – The Right to Be, John Slade Ely House, Sankofa Cultural Arts Festival, New Haven, Connecticut.
1986 – Black Like Me Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1985 – Sargent Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1985 – Museum of African‑American History and Culture, Los Angeles, California.
1984 – Mitzi Landau 20th Century Art, Los Angeles, California.
1984 – Ingber Gallery, New York, New York
1981 – California State Office Building, Los Angeles, California. (1981–1982)
1981 – Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia.
1981 – "Forever Free: Works by African‑American Women Artists,” Center for the Visual Arts, University of Illinois, Normal, Illinois (origin); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, South Carolina; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1977 – Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1977 – “Eleven From California,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.
1975 – Suzanne Jackson /William Pajaud /Charles White,” Pioneer Museum, Haggin Art Galleries, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
1974 – "Directions in Afro-American Art," Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
1974 – Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1974 – "The Real Live Dazzlers," Essence Magazine, December (publication)
1974 – Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1973 – Black Mirror, Womanspace, Los Angeles, California.1972
1972 – Fresno Art Center, Fresno California.
1972 – Pioneer Museum, Haggin Art Galleries, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
1972 – Principal Researcher, "BLACK MASTERS: Inherent Retention of African Culture by Blacks in the Americas" (publication).

Kundivihira

1 2 3 Gerwin, Daniel (2019). Suzanne Jackson at O-Town House (en-US).
1 2 Jackson, Suzanne (American painter, mixed-media artist, born 1944). The J. Paul Getty Trust.
1 2 3 Mason, Karen Anne (interviewer), Suzanne Jackson (interviewee). Interview with Suzanne Jackson.
↑ Jones, Kellie (2017). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
1 2 3 Keith, Naima J. (6 August 2018). Suzanne Jackson.
1 2 Artist Walkthrough, Life Model: Charles White and His Students with Suzanne Jackson at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2019).
↑ Smith, Melissa (2019-11-20). 'We Had to Do It For Ourselves': Legendary Gallerist Suzanne Jackson on Why the Art World Has Never Gotten Her Story Right (en-US).
↑ Life Model: Charles White and His Students (en).
↑ Flora, Rachael. Five decades of Suzanne Jackson (en).
↑ Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
↑ West by Midwest, Nov 17, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019.
1 2 3 Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, A Conversation with Cynthia Burlingham (en-US) (November 27, 2017).
↑ Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 (en). UCLA.

External links

Official Site: http://www.suzannejackson.art
Interview with Suzanne Jackson, 1980 July, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Interview of Suzanne Jackson, 1992 August, from TEI Project, UCLA Library Oral Histories
Video: Murs Murs by Agnès Varda
Video: Netropolitan Interview

[:4-1] 1 2 3 Gerwin, Daniel (2019). Suzanne Jackson at O-Town House (en-US).

[:5-2] 1 2 Jackson, Suzanne (American painter, mixed-media artist, born 1944). The J. Paul Getty Trust.

[:0-3] 1 2 3 Mason, Karen Anne (interviewer), Suzanne Jackson (interviewee). Interview with Suzanne Jackson.

[4] Jones, Kellie (2017). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

[:2-5] 1 2 3 Keith, Naima J. (6 August 2018). Suzanne Jackson.

[:6-6] 1 2 Artist Walkthrough, Life Model: Charles White and His Students with Suzanne Jackson at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2019).

[7] Smith, Melissa (2019-11-20). 'We Had to Do It For Ourselves': Legendary Gallerist Suzanne Jackson on Why the Art World Has Never Gotten Her Story Right (en-US).

[8] Life Model: Charles White and His Students (en).

[9] Flora, Rachael. Five decades of Suzanne Jackson (en).

[10] Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.

[11] West by Midwest, Nov 17, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019.

[:7-12] 1 2 3 Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, A Conversation with Cynthia Burlingham (en-US) (November 27, 2017).

[13] Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 (en). UCLA.

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