Matthew Day Jackson
Tower Falls, 2023
Four-color rainbow-roll relief print with foil embossing on Yamada Hanga Japanese paper
34 x 26.25 inches
86.36 x 66.675 cm
Edition of 30, 4AP, 4PP, 1BAT, 1 Exhibition Print
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed by Mae Shore, Shore Publishing
Skowhegan Alum 2002
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Matthew Day Jackson is a painter, sculptor, draftsperson, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Through his multifarious practice, which includes collage, drawing, video, performance, and installation, Jackson engages with a wide range of subjects, from the historical and scientific to the futuristic and fantastical. Utilizing notably American images and iconography associated with LIFE magazine, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the West, the atomic bomb, and more, he examines how an inexorable pursuit of a false utopia throughout American history has shaped notions of national identity. Jackson brings his own experience and embodiment of the past and present to the fore of his practice. At the core of his work is a deep interest in finding similarities within binaries and dichotomies, particularly the simultaneity of beauty and horror. Hand etched by Matthew Day Jackson, Tower Falls is drawn Thomas Moran’s watercolors from 1871 Hayden Expedition that he and photographer William Henry Jackson created to convince Congress that Yellowstone should be protected as a national park.
Jackson graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1997 and earned an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 2001. He was the recipient of the 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Award for Excellence in Printmaking, and he has participated in residencies at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon; and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine. Important solo and group exhibitions of his work include New American Art, Studio des Acacias, Paris (2015); Matthew Day Jackson: Maa, Serlachius Museums, Mantta, Finland (2019); Matthew Day Jackson: New Landscape, Qiao Space, Shanghai, China (2018); Matthew Day Jackson: Waterfalls & Birds, Camille Obering Fine Art, Wilson, Wyoming (2021); and Light and Language, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland (2021). His work is held in numerous collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rubell Museum, Miami; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.