Tomashi Jackson
LOT 5
How Do Those Fools Survive?, 2023
Acrylic and marble paste on canvas
19.25 x 16 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery
Suggested retail value: $25,000
Starting bid: $12,000
About the Artwork
Tomashi Jackson’s creative process draws from a rich array of sources, including archival materials, historical documents, and personal stories, which she weaves together to create a compelling dialogue between past and present. Jackson’s exhibition Minute By Minute (2023) at Night Gallery examined themes of isolation and connection, grief and renewal; its title was inspired by The Doobie Brothers’ 1978 album of the same name, which served as an emotive soundtrack to numerous tender moments shared between the artist and her late mother, Aver Marie Burroughs. Featured in the exhibition, How Do Those Fools Survive? engages one of Jackson’s unique practices, the incorporation into her works of earthen materials via thickly applied pastes made from, for example, Southern Colorado sand, Yule quarry marble dust from the Colorado mountain where the stone for the Lincoln Memorial was unearthed, and Pentelic marble dust from the Dionyssos quarry in Greece, the stone source for the restoration of ancient Greek monuments. In the intricate layers of form, texture, and materiality in Jackson’s work, we can discern the gradual transformation and erosion of elements, mirroring the nuanced and imperceptible losses that often unfold over time. Jackson has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Jackson was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and is a recipient of the Rappaport Prize, the Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
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