Still Life Rebel: The Art of Robert C. Jackson
On view through November 3, 2019
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
Evansville, Indiana
www.emuseum.org
The Museum’s 2019 Martha and Merritt deJong Memorial Artist-in-Residence is painter Robert C. Jackson. In conjunction with an August 25–November 3 Old Gallery solo exhibition entitled, Still Life Rebel, Jackson conduct demonstrations and workshops at area high schools and the Museum during his week long residency.
As unique as his paintings, Jackson is an artist with a non-traditional background. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and began working as a radio systems engineer with Motorola. After five years, with a strong calling to pursue the ministry, he became an assistant pastor for the Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland. In 1997, Jackson decided to make another career change and became a full-time artist operating his own gallery in downtown Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Jackson’s paintings are designed as conceptual and narrative based still life to spark the imaginations of viewers. He constructs dioramas where the props depicted in his works serve as characters who act out dramas on soda pop stages. Although a still life painter, Jackson’s work is anything but still. By presenting taboo topics in a humorous manner, Jackson notes, “I aim to affirm reality, yet offer hope and a laugh. My characters show us our foibles and sometimes make big issues easier to swallow. Hopefully we are able to laugh the hardest at ourselves.”
Jackson is represented in the permanent collections of museums across the country including the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the South Dakota Art Museum and the Evansville Museum of Art, History, & Science.
Credit:
Robert C. Jackson
Thinker, 2018
48×54, oil on canvas
