Patrick Jackson

UN goals

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

Tags

• Abstract
• Camp
• Consumerism
• Existentialism
• Glass
• Psychoanalysis
• Sculpture 3D
• United States

Biography

Having held and shown his installations in the intimacy of his Los Angeles apartment complex on more than one occasion, Patrick Jackson does not hesitate to bring people into his subconscious. Inspired by literature and theory, the American artist also brings meaningful pieces of his own life into his works. He can thus create familiar and uncanny spaces all at once, contrasting viewers’ psychologies in a given moment.

In series such as Patrick Jackson’s Shelving Units, we can find Clement Greenberg’s theory on kitsch, where purely materialistic and “bad taste” objects play into consumerism’s attempt at culture. Greenberg writes: “Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations”. There is thus no real meaning, a feeling of “nothingness” that the artist reaches for in his work.

In the same way that Jackson’s oeuvre combines human experience with theory, Dostoyevski described that of the Russian culture and people of his time. Through his novels, namely Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, or Notes from Underground, he gives a critical picture of what it is to exist in such a time, the latter example becoming a precursor for existentialism.

Career highlights

Solo shows

• 2021, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA: Proposal for a Monument, Made in L.A. 2020
• 2021, The Huntington, San Marino, USA: Heads, Hands and Feet, Made in L.A. 2020
• 2020, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA: My Dark Architect
• 2017, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA: KNOW YER CITY
• 2017, Moss, Norway: Pig Paradise, Momentum 9: Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Group shows

• 2021, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, USA: Hang in They’re
• 2014, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada: Be Mysterious
• 2010, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal: California Dreamin’
• 2010, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France: BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis

Media

• 2022, Artforum: Guggenheim announces 2022 fellowship recipients
• 2020, Frieze: At François Ghebaly Los Angeles, Nostalgia for Simple Design Becomes the Norm
• 2020, LA Times: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum’s (unopened) biennial
• 2020, Art Viewer: Patrick Jackson at François Ghebaly

Selected artworks

• Patrick Jackson Untitled Stack, 2015 François Ghebaly $6,500 Buy now