Artist: Patrick Jackson
Exhibition title: KNOW YER CITY
Curated by: Kim Nguyen and Leila Grothe
Venue: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Date: June 1 – July 29, 2017
Photography: Johnna Arnold, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Note: Exhibition booklet can be found here
This exhibition was assembled somewhere between daydreaming in a hot apartment and long walks in Los Angeles. Cityscapes, billboards, and public art are contrasted with the inside of a home, a head.
Working as a collector and maker, Patrick Jackson creates immersive environments. Intermingling high and lowbrow aesthetics, he is invested in narrative and conceptual installations, taking into consideration everything that gives a space shape.
His work confronts viewers with the material nature of sculpture, in particular the memories, emotions, and values we ascribe to things. But for Jackson actual things are not of great import. He is more concerned with things that resemble things, that feel like things, that have all the components of the thing itself, but are only connotations of things.
Patrick Jackson (b.1978, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, (cover) Musician, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, Woman, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, Young Man, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, Young Woman 2, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, Head on Table, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Axe, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Thumb, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Body, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Outside, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Dresser, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Amputated, 2017, silver gelatin print in aluminum frame, 12.25 x 8.25 inches
Patrick Jackson, Stripper, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, Man 2, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, KNOW YER CITY, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick Jackson, Young Woman 2, 2017, used billboard vinyl stretched over panel, 60 x 84 x 1.75 inches
