Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
Matthew Day-Jackson: Chariot II
Matthew Day Jackson
Chariot II—I like America and America Likes Me, 2008
Car frame, steel, wool felt, leather, stained glass, fluorescent light tubes, solar panel, fiberglass, and plastic
40 x 80 x 240 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Installation view courtesy MIT List Visual Arts Center
Opening reception: Friday, October 16, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m
On view: October 17, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance is a solo exhibition that includes works based on Jackson’s artist’s residency at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Jackson’s complex research, histories, and hagiographies are manifested in sculptures, constructed paintings, objects, books, and videos. In this exhibition, organized by Bill Arning, Director of the CAMH, Jackson continues his investigations into human consciousness and explores how positive evolutionary developments in human thought and culture occur under physical or mental stress. Other works explore how constructive and destructive technological developments often stem from a similar impetus: to expand human experience despite all odds, proving that progress is possible, whatever the risk. Drag racing, the Apollo space missions, test-pilot culture, the nuclear legacy in terms of both science and culture, commingle with iconic twentieth-century figures like visionary Buckminster Fuller, Big Daddy Don Garlits, Eleanor Roosevelt…even the artist’s mother. Jackson relates these modern myths using his iconic players as mischievous tricksters to question what it means to live at a time when technology has rewritten philosophy and religion.
Born in 1974 in Panorama City, CA, Matthew Day Jackson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Jackson’s solo exhibitions include Drawings from Tlön, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY (2008); Terranaut, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (2008); Diptych, Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston, MA (2007); The Lower 48, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY (2007); Paradise Now!, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR (2006); and By No Means Necessary, The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Heartland, Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2008); Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK (2008); The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2008); and Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY (2005).
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