Patrick Jackson PATRICK JACKSON
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Ghebaly Gallery Patrick Jackson PATRICK JACKSON 1978 Born in Los Angeles Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA EDUCATION 2007 MFA, University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2002 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 (UPCOMING) My Dark Architect, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (UPCOMING) Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA 2015 Shelving Unit, Galerie Vallois; Paris, FR Extreme Mystic Fire, Hakuna Matata, Los Angeles, CA 2013 The Third Floor, Francois Ghebaly Gallery; Los Angeles, CA 2012 All Cut Up, 1451 E. 4th St. (in collaboration with Francois Ghebaly); Los Angeles, CA The Armory Show, with François Ghebaly and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 2011 House of Double, 600 Robinson St. Apt #1 and #4 (in collaboration with Francois Ghebaly Gallery); Los Angeles, CA Frame at the Frieze Art Fair, (François Ghebaly Gallery), London, UK 2010 Tchotchke Stacks, Nicole Klagsbrun; New York, NY 2009 NADA Projects, (François Ghebaly Gallery), Miami Beach, FL 2008 City Unborn, Francois Ghebaly Gallery; Los Angeles, CA 2007 Nomad of the Steppers Florescent Light and Hot Water, Roski Gallery; Los Angeles, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Mud of Murk, Patrick Jackson and Asha Schechter, 3A Gallery, New York, NY 2015 ‘Tchotchke’: Mass-Produced Sentimental Objects in Contemporary Art, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College; Gambier, OH West Coast, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, FR 3 Days of the Condor, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Control Lapse, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK The Tool and Its Reversal, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre; Alberta, CAN The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Clearing Gallery; Brooklyn, NY 2013 Made in Space, Gavin Brown Enterprises and Venus Over Manhattan; Los Angeles, CA The Humors, Perry Rubenstein Gallery; Los Angeles, CA Made in Space, Night Gallery; Los Angeles, CA 2012 Vision Quest, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery; New York, NY Material Underground, Francois Ghebaly Gallery; Los Angeles, CA Group Show, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA nd Greater L.A., 483 Broadway 2 floor, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleanor Cayre and Joel Mesler; New York, NY 2010 BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain; Bordeaux, FR Musée Los Angeles, 1451 E. 4thSt., curated by Mieke Marple; Los Angeles, CA California Dreamin’, Portugal Arte 10, curated by Fred Hoffmann; Lisbon, POR 90012, Kate Werble Gallery; New York, NY 2009 Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, Hammer Museum; Los Angeles, CA Summer Reading, curated by Mike Bouchet, Invisible Exports; New York, NY 2008 Yesterday & Tomorrow, High Desert Test Sites, California Biennial; Joshua Tree, CA 2006 LA Weekly's Annual, Track 16; Los Angeles, CA Quiver, Cirrus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA 2003 Cosmorama, Eastern Connecticut State University; Willimantic, CT 2002 Supernatural Satisfaction, The Soap Factory; Minneapolis, MN 2001 Shadow Boxes, Exploratorium; San Francisco, CA AWARDS 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2006 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Beverly G. Alpay Award 2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency; New York, NY 2002 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Residency; New York, NY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Mousse Magazine, March 2014; Andrew Berardini, Three Levels Art Forum, February 2014; Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, The Third Floor Review 2013 Los Angeles Times, December 2013; Sharon Mizota, The Third Floor Review New York Times, 8/1/13; Roberta Smith, Made in Space Review Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, by Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson 2011 New York Times, 6/1/11; Roberta Smith, Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel, Greater LA 2010 BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis Catalogue, Tchotchke Stacks, p.269, CAPC, Sternberg Press Modern Painters December 2010/January 2011; Charlie Schultz, The Collectors Art Forum, December 2010; Emily Hall, Tchotchke Stacks Review 2008 Artforum.com, May 2008; Sharon Mizota “City Unborn” Critic’s Picks 2006 LA WEEKLY, September 6, VOL.28, NO.42; Tom Christie and Holly Myers “Afterschool Art” SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Shelving Unit, 2015 Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Shelving Unit, 2015 Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Shelving Unit, 2015 Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, The Stuf That Dreams Are Made Of, 2014 (Group Exhibition) C L E A R I N G, New York SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Made in Space, 2013 (Group Exhibition) Gavin Brown enterprise, New York SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Josh Lilley, London, 2015 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, The Third Floor, 2013 Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, The Third Floor, 2013 Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, All Cut Up, 2012 1451 E. 4th St. (in collaboration with Ghebaly Gallery), Los Angeles, CA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, House of Double, 2011 600 Robinson St. Apt #1 and #4 (in collaboration with Ghebaly Gallery), Los Angeles, CA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, House of Double, 2011 600 Robinson St. Apt #1 and #4 (in collaboration with Ghebaly Gallery), Los Angeles, CA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Tchotchke Stacks, 2010 Nicole Klagsbrun, New York SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Tchotchke Stacks, 2010 Nicole Klagsbrun, New York SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, City Unborn, 2009 Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, City Unborn, 2009 Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Nomad of the Steppers Florescent Light and Hot Water, 2007 Roski Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Installation view, Patrick Jackson, Nomad of the Steppers Florescent Light and Hot Water, 2007 Roski Gallery, Los Angeles SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Untitled Ceramics 2016 plasticine, polyurethane, plaster, epoxy, ceramic 9.5 x 12.5 x 2 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Hands Holding 2016 plasticine, polyurethane, epoxy 34 x 26 x 5 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Untitled Drawing 2016 Ink on paper 9 x 12 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Alphabet Skin 2015 ceramic 10 x 8 x 1.5 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Folding Torus 2015 epoxy, paint 25 x 25 x 8 inches Edition of 3 SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Silhouette 2015 ceramic 10 x 6 x 2 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Rainbow Rock Dino Skin 2015 Ceramic and glaze 14 x 8 x 13 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Curtains 2013 ceramic, glaze, hardware 12 x 20 x 2 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Cups at Hand and Brick Wall Signs 2011 powder-coated metal, wax, ceramic and glass cups, wood pedestal 98.5 x 18 x 9.5 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Dirt Pile on a Table (Victorian) 2011 dirt, table, epoxy 16 x 34 x 12 inches SELECTED WORKS Patrick Jackson Tchotchke Stack 22 2010 tchotchkes, glass, mirrors, wood, coins Dimensions variable mousse 42 ~ Patrick Jackson los angeles ~ Patrick Jackson Bodies and objects, time and possibilities. size, the glass uniting them into sculptures. Haim Steinbach’s shelved displays LOS ANGELES make an easy reference, though Jackson doesn’t do it to uncover the hidden According to some, between the nothing of a single point and the infnity of all meanings of the objects, but to erase them. Displayed so, they can’t help but possibilities for all times there are merely ten lines, up to the tenth dimension. appear as purely commercial, contained and clean and likely for sale. All those We cannot conceive of that which lies beyond, so we’re stuck at ten. Of course things and all that glass. The French don’t call it lèche-vitrine for nothing. there are other theories, too. By removing all meaning but their size and structural durability, Jackson runs THREE LEVELS For sculpture, we have three. One working defnition of sculpture is art in the risk of sucking away the one thing tchotchkes had going for them: that they three dimensions. A thing in space. Plunked on a plinth, craned onto a plaza, were loved by people. As much as I don’t care for tchotchkes, I care for others. mantled over your freplace, we can saunter around it, maybe even pick it up, a BY ANDREW BERARDINI My mother keeps tchotchkes. The boundary between the person and her things thing intended to be viewed as such. Sculpture is our body next to its body. Our is blurry. I would as soon mock one of them to her as I would her. humanness next to its thingness. Artworks are efgies, made by us, stand-ins for humans more mortally fragile than their creations. Accompanying their inaugural display however, Jackson made a poster that quietly revealed and redeemed. Above the announcement of the artist, the gal- What dimension contains the animating spirit, the past history that formed it lery, the fair, two cartoon characters from the Simpsons stand side by side: and the potential futures and desires that compel it forward, the needs that the thick, ponytailed comic-book dealer and the insidious oligarch Mr. Burns. make it a thing, the complex interactions that make it a self? Perhaps it’s all in Each has a long, well-written speech talk-bubbled above. The comics dealer the tenth, and maybe so are we. states that these tchotchke stacks make “an exceptional prop for a contempo- Form and concept have never been indissoluble. Bodies are things, things that rary Dario Argento flm, used to frst foreshadow, and ultimately to execute, are us. So is art. the untimely and gruesome death of a beautiful young thrift store clerk.” Mr. Burns replies, “Cats, dogs, various forms of hugs and other signs of love—the Here with Patrick Jackson, we have things. Lowbrow tchotchkes and high- perfect decorations for some drone’s cubicle.