Background
JACKSON, RICHARD was born on February 25, 1939 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States.
JACKSON, RICHARD was born on February 25, 1939 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States.
He studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959–1961 and taught Sculpture and New Forms at University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles 1989 - 1994.
He now lives in Los Angeles, California. Since the 1970s Jackson has developed in his work an interrogation of painting that combines conceptual procedures, humour and extreme disorder. He expands the activity of painting, abandons its traditional instruments for machines, vehicles and everyday objects.
Foreign this reason he has been referred to as a Neo-Dadaist.
Jackson has brought the material dimensions of painting to extremes. "Big Ideas" from 1981 consisted of hundreds of painted canvases stacked into a sphere of 5 meters in diameter.
His exhibition, The Maid"s Room / The Dining Room (2007) is a tribute to Marcel Duchamp"s last major work: Etant donnéson In 1999 he exhibited at the 48th Venice Biennale.
Jackson"s recent solo exhibitions include,"The Little Girl’s Room", David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles California, (2011) and "Accidents in Abstract Painting", The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena California, (2012).
The latter saw Jackson fly and crash a radio-controlled, model military plane with a fifteen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, into a twenty-foot wall that read “accidents in abstract painting.” The spectacle, free and open to the public, took place at Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco. In 2013, he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Artist 2013
Richard Jackson: Ain"t Painting a Pain, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California / South.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2012
Richard Jackson: Accidents in Abstract Painting, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena California
2011
The Little Girl’s Room, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles California
2010
Richard Jackson, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
Richard Jackson – Big Pig, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
Richard Jackson: Red Room/Green Room, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena California
2009
The Laundry Room, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
2007
The Maid"s Room / The Dining Room, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Yvon Lambert Gallery, The War Room, New York New York
2006
Richard Jackson: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2005
Beer, Deer, Bear, Parisa Kind Gallery, Francfurt, Germany
The Pink Empire, Hauser & Wirth, London, United Kingdom
2004
Unusual Behaviour, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Dick"s Pictures, Haswellediger & Company Gallery, New York, United States of America
The Three Bears, Foundation 20 21, New York, United States of America
2003
Accidents in Abstract Paintings, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
2002
Senn Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Richard Jackson, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Project Room)
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1998
Deer Beer, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
De Nada – One Manitoba Show, Art Jonction, Nice, France, (March, Stuttgart)
1997
Paint Ball, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, United States of America
1994
Wall Painting / Room Installation, Galerie zur Kastanienallee, Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland.
The District of Columbia Bar. American Bar Association. American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Cincinnati Patent Law Association.
Eastern New York Patent Law association (Director, 1979). (Senior Patent Counsel).